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| Antoine Vestier Portrait of a Woman 1763 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Anonymous Photographer George Tooker posing outside Rome 1948 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Pieter Antonie von Verschaffelt Electress Elisabeth Augusta of the Palatinate as Minerva ca. 1760-65 marble Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| Kees Timmer Self Portrait 1972 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Head of Woman ca. 1925 color woodblock print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Elihu Vedder Giorgina ca. 1886 oil on paper, mounted on board Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Walter Stuempfig Portrait of Susan B. Stewart ca. 1940 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Karl Stieler Countess Sophie Esterházy née Liechtenstein ca. 1830 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Patricia Watwood American Nude 2008 oil on canvas New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut |
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| Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Medallion Portrait of Paul I of Russia 1782 jasperware (designed by John Flaxman) British Museum |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Bacchante 1785 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Abraham van Dyck (student of Rembrandt) Portrait of a Woman at age Fifty 1655 oil on panel Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Anonymous Photographer Muriel Manners in Broadway play Poor Little Ritz Girl 1920 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Gilbert Stuart Portrait of William Rufus Gray ca. 1807 oil on canvas M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco |
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| Thomas Sully Portrait of Mary and Emily McEuen 1823 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Marquand Fidel Dominikus Wocher Portrait of Mlle. Marguérite de Murat 1801 gouache on paper Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Jonas Wood Young Manny 2009 gouache and colored pencil on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
from The Thebaid
[Tisiphone answers the summons of Oedipus]
Headlong from thence the Fury urg'd her Flight,
And at the Theban Palace did alight,
Once more invades the guilty Dome, and shrouds
Its bright Pavilions in a Veil of Clouds.
Strait with the Rage of all their Race possest,
Stung to the Soul, the Brothers start from Rest,
And all the Furies wake within their Breast.
Their tortur'd Minds repining Envy tears,
And Hate, engender'd by suspicious Fears;
And sacred Thirst of Sway; and all the Ties
Of Nature broke; and Royal Perjuries;
And impotent Desire to reign alone,
That scorns the dull Reversion of a Throne;
Each wou'd the sweets of Sovereign Rule devour,
While Discord waits upon divided Pow'r.
As stubborn Steers by brawny Plowmen broke,
And join'd reluctant to the galling Yoke,
Alike disdain with servile necks to bear
Th' unwonted Weight, or drag the crooked Share,
But rend the Reins, and bound a diff'rent way,
And all the Furrows in Confusion lay:
Such was the Discord of the Royal Pair,
Whom Fury drove precipitate to War.
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by Alexander Pope (1712)