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| Alfred Agache Study of an Old Woman 1880 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| René-Marie Castaing Half-Length Figure Study ca. 1920 drawing (study for painting, Ecce Homo) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Harald Sallberg Sonja 1933 etching Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| John Singer Sargent Half-Length Studies of Model ca. 1890 drawing Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Lovis Corinth Model taking a Break 1909 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden |
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| Moise Benkow Model Study I 1932 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Carl Jacob Malmberg Untitled ca. 1875 albumen print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Theodor Schindler Seated Model 1913 oil on canvas Kunsthalle Mannheim |
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| Edvard Munch Standing Model 1902 lithograph Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Christian Krohg Model Resting ca. 1913 oil on cardboard Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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| Jean-François Millet Académie 1837 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô |
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| Paul-Jean-Étienne Balze Figure Study ca. 1853 oil on canvas (study for painting, Anarchy) Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Pompeo Batoni Académie ca. 1765-70 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Anonymous French Artist Académie ca. 1765-75 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Eugen, Prince of Sweden Académie ca. 1887-89 drawing Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Pål-Nils Nilsson Untitled (Fabric Story) ca. 1958 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Chorus of Furies: So, what blessings do you bid me invoke upon this land?
Athena: Such as are appropriate to an honourable victory, coming moreover both from the earth, and from the waters of the sea, and from the heavens; and for the gales of wind to come over the land breathing the air of bright sunshine; and for the fruitfulness of the citizens' land and livestock to thrive in abundance, and not to fail with the passage of time; and for the preservation of human seed. But may you give greater fertility to those who are pious; for like a shepherd of plants, I cherish the race to which these righteous men belong.* Such things as these are for you to grant; for my part, I would find it unendurable not to honour this city among men by making her a city of victory in glorious martial struggle.
Chorus:
I will accept a residence with Pallas,
and I will not dishonour the city
in which there dwell also Zeus the almighty
and Ares – the guard-post of the gods,
the protector of their altars, the delight
of the divinities of Greece;
for which city I pray,
and prophesy with kind intent,
that the bright light of the sun
may cause blessings beneficial to her life
to burst forth in profusion from the earth.
– Aeschylus, from Eumenides (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*Probably referring to the members of the Areopagus Council ("the best among my citizens"); Athena will no doubt have made her meaning clear by a gesture.