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| Lawrence Carmichael Earle Model in Dutch Costume ca. 1885 watercolor on paper Brooklyn Museum |
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| Terry Evans Mark, Panther Island Concert 2013 inkjet print Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Otto Dix Portrait of Frederik and Annie Gottlieb 1936 mixed media on panel (unfinished) Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Wilhelm Trübner Portrait of a Girl 1878 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| John Hertzberg Self Portrait ca. 1925 autochrome Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Jean-Jacques Henner Candeur (tête de fantaisie) ca. 1885 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Robert Lefèvre Portrait of painter Pierre-Narcisse Guérin 1801 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Art d'Orléans |
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| Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn Portrait of a Woman ca. 1625 oil on panel Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne |
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| attributed to Frans Pourbus the Elder Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Calatrava ca. 1570 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Anna Riwkin Portrait of Salvador Dalí 1933 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Henry Raeburn Portrait of Mrs Andrew Hay ca. 1795 oil on canvas Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
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| John Hoppner Portrait of Thomas Erskine, Lord Chancellor ca. 1806-1807 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ivar Nyberg The Artist's Mother 1907 watercolor on paper Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Adriaen Thomasz Key Portrait of a Man 1572 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Mme. Marie Marcotte de Sainte-Marie 1826 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Chris Killip Mrs. Pitts, Slieau Whallian, Glenfaba (series, Isle of Man) 1971 gelatin silver print Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Clytemnestra: You will now also hear this righteous oath I swear: by the fulfilled Justice that was due for my child, by Ruin and by the Fury, through whose aid I slew this man, no fearful apprehension stalks my house, so long as the fire upon my hearth is kindled by Aegisthus and he remains loyal to me as hitherto; for he is an ample shield of confidence for me. Here lies this abuser of his wife, the charmer of Chryseis and the rest at Troy, and with him this captive, this soothsayer, this chanter of oracles who shared his bed, this faithful consort, this cheap whore of the ship's benches. But they have not gone without their due reward: he is as he is, while she, after singing, swan-like, her final dirge of death, lies here, his lover – and to me she has brought a choice side-dish to the pleasure in which I luxuriate.
Chorus:
Ah, if only some fate could swiftly come –
not a painful one, nor one
that left us long bedridden – that would bring us
eternal, unending sleep, now that he has been laid low,
our most kindly guardian,
who endured so much because of a woman
and now has lost his life at a woman's hands!
Ió, ió, demented Helen,
who alone brought death to so many,
so very many souls at Troy,
now you have adorned yourself with a final adornment, never to be forgotten
through the shedding of blood that nothing can wash away! Truly the house then contained
a spirit that stirred up strife and brought woe to the man.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)