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| Willem van Haecht the Younger Salon of Archduchess Isabella of Austria in Brussels 1621 oil on panel Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida |
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| Pieter de Hooch Card Players in a Sunlit Room 1658 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Abraham van Strij Interior with Woman and Child ca. 1790 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Luigi Bazzani Roman Interior ca. 1880 oil on panel Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Frederick Goodall Puritan and Cavalier 1886 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Hugo Salmson Visiting the Tenant Farmer ca. 1886 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent |
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| George Morren Sunday Afternoon 1892 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Carl Roll Røstvig Breakfast ca. 1910-15 oil on canvas Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway |
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| Edward Hopper Eleven A.M. 1926 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| John Koch Portrait of Dora in Interior ca. 1957 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| O. Winston Link Living Room on the Tracks, Lithia, Virginia 1958 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Hans Namuth Leonard Baskin 1964 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jon Stroup The Gardener 1979 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Daniel Sprick Modern Consciousness 1989 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Larry Sultan Kitchen Window, Topanga Canyon 1999 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Gregory Crewdson Untitled 2001-2002 C-print Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Andrew Raftery Open House, Dutch Colonial 2002 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Argonautica
Now wrought the mystic charm, with potent sway.
Entranc'd, dissolv'd the dreadful monster lay,
With spine relax'd, extended o'er the plain,
In orbs diffuse uncoil'd his scaly train.
When breezes fill th' expansive sail no more,
And not a wave is heard to lash the shore,
In placid silence, thus the billows sleep;
And languid curls are spread along the deep.
Yet, still aloft his horrid head he rear'd;
And still in act to close his jaws appear'd;
With dreadful menace – But the numph display'd
A mystic bough, cut from the sacred shade,
A branch of juniper in drugs bedew'd,
With potency by magic spell imbued.
Melodious charm her tuneful voice applies;
She waves her opiate o'er the monster's eyes.
Diffus'd around narcotic vapour flows;
The dragon sinks subdued, in deep repose,
Unmoving, harmless, as the silent dead;
His gaping jaws were fix'd; he hung his head;
And spreading like some vast meand'ring flood,
His powerless volumes stretch'd along the wood.
Exhorted by the maid, without delay,
The youth approach'd the tree, to seise the prey;
While, near the dragon fix'd, th' intrepid maid
O'er his dire head the flattering unction laid.
She waited thus, unmov'd, and unapppall'd,
Till to the ship the youth her steps recall'd,
When now departing from the sacred grove,
He gave the sign of safety, and of love.