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William Mulready
Study for Prometheus
ca. 1820
watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Barbro Bäckström
Statue of Liberty
1977
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lionel Lindsay
Study of Recumbent Model
1896
drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux
Studies of Recumbent Woman
ca. 1845
drawing
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Johann Baptist Reiter
Sleeping Woman
1849
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Félix Vallotton
Model with Blue Playing Cards
1914
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Constantin Guys
Studies of Recumbent Model
ca. 1830
drawing
Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Académie
ca. 1750-54
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Cephalus Asleep
1810
drawing
(study for painting)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Anton Kolig
Figure in Gray
1919
oil on canvas
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Lovis Corinth
Study of Model
1907
oil on canvas
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Henry Moore
Reclining Figure with Pink Rocks
1942
drawing, with added watercolor
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Pablo Picasso
Nude with Bird
1968
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Carl Friedrich Lessing
Prone Figure
ca. 1830
drawing
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Jean-Jacques Henner
Penitent St Jerome
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Wilhelm Böttner
Sleeping Venus
1789
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Alexander, receiving this omen, returned victorious to Macedonia to find that his mother, Olympias, had been divorced by King Philip and that Philip had married the sister of Lysias, by name Kleopatra.  Philip's wedding was taking place that very day, and Alexander, wearing his Olympic victory crown, entered the banquet and said to King Philip: "Father, accept the victory crown of my first exertions.  And when in turn I give my mother, Olympias, to another king, I shall invite you to Olympias's wedding."  So saying, Alexander reclined opposite his father, Philip, but Philip was hurt by Alexander's words.

Then Lysias, a joker who was reclining at table, said to Philip: "King Philip, ruler over every city, now we celebrate your wedding with Kleopatra, an honorable lady, by whom you will have legitimate children, not the product of adultery – and they will look like you."  Hearing Lysias say this made Alexander angry, and he reacted instantly, hurling his goblet at Lysias; it hit him on the temple and killed him.

– Pseudo-Callisthenes, from The Alexander Romance (2nd-4th century AD), translated from Greek by Ken Dowden (1989)