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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Portrait of a Young Woman 1538 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Cornelis Sustermans Portrait of Archduke Karl Joseph of Austria ca. 1653-54 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean Ranc Portrait of Anne Melon 1702 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Infanta Maria Ludovica, later Holy Roman Empress ca. 1764-65 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| George Romney Portrait of Elizabeth Leigh ca. 1765 oil on canvas Huntington Library and Art Museum, San-Marino, California |
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| Alexander Roslin Portrait of Anne-Jacqueline-Sophie de Malartie 1781 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Anonymous French Artist Portrait of a Woman ca. 1785 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Henry Fuseli Two Courtesans ca. 1790-92 drawing, with added watercolor Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Jean-Laurent Mosnier Portrait of Elizabeth Hudtwalcker ca. 1798 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Henry Howard Marguerite (from Goethe's Faust) ca. 1810 oil on panel Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Portrait of a Woman 1829 oil on panel Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Frederik Moller Portrait of a Woman 1830 oil on canvas Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Albert Edelfelt Portrait of Annie Edelfelt 1883 oil on panel Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| William Merritt Chase Portrait of a Lady in Pink ca. 1888-89 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Jules Green Avez Vous Le Sourire? (magazine) 1899 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Olle Hjortzberg Olympic Games - Stockholm 1912 printed 1911 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Urania read it, while he with teares and groanes gave the true period to it. The Letter said thus.
My onely Lord, thinke not this, or the manner strange I now send, knowing already some part of the undeserved course taken with me, only pitie her, who for your sake suffers patiently; accept these my last lines, and with them the sincerest love that ever woman gave to man. I have not time to speake what I would, therefore let this satisfie you, that the many threatnings I have heard, are come in some kind to end: for I must presently die, and for you; which death is most welcome, since for you I must have it, and more pleasing then life without you. Grant me then these last requests, which even by your love I conjure you not to denie me, that you love my poore memory; and as you will love that, or ever loved me, revenge not my death on my murtherer, who, how unworthy soever hee was, or is, yet hee is my Husband. This is all, and this grant, as I will faithfully die
Yours.
"Alas, faire Shepherdesse," said he, "is this a letter without much sorrow to be read? and is not this a creature of all others to be belov'd? Never let him breath, that will not heartily, and most heartily lament such a misfortune."
– from The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, by the right honourable the Lady Mary Wroath, daughter to the right noble Robert, Earle of Leicester, and neece to the ever famous and renowned Sʳ Phillips Sidney knight, and to ye most excellant Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke, late deceased (London: John Marriott and John Grismand, 1621)