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| Rod McNicol Mr. Byrnes died three weeks after this picture was taken. He is holding a photograph of himself, aged twelve. 1989 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Pietro Perugino St Bartholomew ca. 1512 tempera on panel Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama |
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| Reinier Lucassen Some Examples of Successful Cultural Entrepreneurship 2017 pre-existing painting, with the artist's modifications Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Carlo Maratti Portrait of a Young Woman before 1713 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Annie Leibovitz Portrait of AIDS researcher Mathilde Krim 1998 pigment print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Franz von Lenbach Portrait of the Marchesa di Montagliari ca. 1885 oil on canvas Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| Suzanne Opton Soldier: Mickelson, length of service unknown 2004 C-print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Marianne Loir Portrait of a Man ca. 1750 oil on canvas Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| Heidi McFall Sarah #9 2001 pastel on paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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| Charles Christian Nahl Little Miss San Francisco 1853 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Patricia McLean Frances with Old Roses 2006 gelatin silver print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Berthe Morisot Portrait of Mme. Boursier and her Daughter ca. 1873 oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum |
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| Donald Magnus Mattison Portrait of the Davico Sisters before 1934 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski Portrait of Henrietta Catherine Agnes, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau 1763 pastel on paper Schloss Mosigkau, Dessau |
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| Jean-Laurent Mosnier Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1790 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Gerald Mofchum Self Portrait ca. 1956 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Albert Pike Lucas Suzette 1894 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from The Thebaid
Now wretched Oedipus, depriv'd of Sight,
Led a long Death in everlasting Night;
But while he dwells where not a chearful Ray
Can pierce the Darkness, and abhors the Day;
The clear, reflecting Mind, presents his Sin
In frightful Views, and makes it Day within;
Returning Thoughts in endless Circles roll,
And thousand Furies haunt his guilty Soul.
The Wretch then lifted to th' unpitying skies
Those empty Orbs, from whence he tore his Eyes,
Whose wounds yet fresh, with bloody Hands he strook,
While from his Breast these dreadful Accents broke:
Ye Gods, that o'er the gloomy Regions reign,
Where guilty Spirits feel Eternal Pain;
Thou, sable Styx! whose livid Streams are roll'd
Thro' dreary Coasts which I, tho' Blind, behold:
Tisiphone! that oft has heard my Pray'r,
Assist, if Oedipus deserve thy Care!
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Alexander Pope (1712)