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Bacchiacca (Francesco Ubertini) Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1525 oil on panel Dallas Museum of Art |
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Cecil Beaton Portrait of Nancy Beaton ca. 1925 gelatin silver print Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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Jan Boeckhorst Ceres ca. 1635 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches, Museum Vienna |
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Louis-Léopold Boilly Figures 1807 drawing (study for painting) Morgan Library, New York |
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Arvid Fougstedt Erik painting with watercolors 1933 gouache on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Hans Lindenstaedt Hagedorn Cigarren 1909 lithograph (poster) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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Lotte Konow Lund Fear and Freedom 2005 C-print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Charlotte Mannheimer Boy at a Window 1892 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza ca. 1493 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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Oscar Gustave Rejlander Lady at the Piano, Wolverhampton 1860 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Laurits Andersen Ring The artist's son Ole with view of Roskilde 1925 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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Gjert Rognli The Spiritual Kiss 2004 digital print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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Harald Sallberg Sorrow ca. 1932 etching Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Joakim Skovgaard Swedish Peasant Girl 1882 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait Study of a Woman 1890 pastel and gouache on paper Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Hugo Zuhr Portrait of sculptor Astrid Noack 1930 oil on canvas Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
They did everything together, grazing their flocks near each other. Often Daphnis rounded up those of her sheep that wandered off, and often Chloe drove the more adventurous of his goats down from the crags. Sometimes one of them looked after both the flocks, while the other was absorbed in some toy. Their toys were of a pastoral and childish type. She picked stalks of asphodel from here and there and wove a trap for grasshoppers, and while she was working on this, she paid no attention to her sheep. He cut slender reeds, pierced them at their joints, fastened them together with soft wax, and practiced piping until nightfall. They also shared their drink of milk or wine, and they divided whatever food they brought from home. You would have been more likely to see the sheep and the goats separated from each other than Chloe and Daphnis.
– Longus, from Daphnis and Chloe (2nd century AD), translated from Greek by Christopher Gill (1989)