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| Carlo Maratti Self Portrait ca. 1680-85 drawing Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Jan van Mieris Portrait of an Artist 1688 oil on panel Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Alexis Grimou Self Portrait as Bacchus 1728 oil on canvas Musée Magnin, Dijon |
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| Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder Eustache Le Sueur 1731 etching and engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Silvestre Pomarede after Ciro Ferri Self Portrait of Cirro Ferri ca. 1740-60 engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Giovanni Battista Casanova Anton Raphael Mengs ca. 1750 drawing Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Paolo Fidanza after Michelangelo Self Portrait of Michelangelo ca. 1757-64 etching Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich |
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| Stephen James Ferris Mariano Fortuny 1873 etching (cliche verre) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| John Frederick Peto Self Portrait in Tree ca. 1895 modern print from glass plate negative Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Victor David Brenner Portrait of James McNeill Whistler 1905 brass relief mounted on wood Freer Gallery of Art Collection, Washington DC |
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| Donald Shaw MacLaughlan Jean Frelaut 1909 drypoint National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Alfredo Valente Portrait of sculptor Paul Manship ca. 1939 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Sanford Roth Giorgio Morandi ca. 1947 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Naomi Savage Man Ray, Princeton NJ 1963 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Hans Namuth Philip Johnson 1987 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| William Greiner William Eggleston 1999 inkjet print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| David Dawson Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach at the V&A 2006 C-print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Of late, what time the Beare turn'd round
At midnight in her woonted way,
And men of all sorts slept full sound,
O'ercome with labour of the day,
O'ercome with labour of the day,
The God of Love came to my dore,
And tooke the ring and knockt it hard.
And tooke the ring and knockt it hard.
Who's there, quoth I, that knocks so sore,
You breake my sleepe, my dreames are marde?
You breake my sleepe, my dreames are marde?
A little boy forsooth, quoth hee,
Dung-wet with raine this Moonelesse night;
With that mee thought it pittied mee,
I ope the dore, and candle light.
With that mee thought it pittied mee,
I ope the dore, and candle light.
And straight a little boy I spide,
A winged Boy with shaftes and bow,
I tooke him to the fire side,
A winged Boy with shaftes and bow,
I tooke him to the fire side,
And set him downe to warme him so.
His little hands in mine I straine,
To rub and warme them therewithall:
To rub and warme them therewithall:
Out of his locks I crush the raine,
From which the drops apace downe fall.
At last, when he was waxen warme,
Now let me try my bow, quoth hee,
I feare my string hath caught some harme,
And wet, will prove too slacke for mee.
And wet, will prove too slacke for mee.
Hee said, and bent his bow, and shot,
And wightly hit me in the hart;
The wound was sore and raging hot,
The heate like fury rekes my smart.
Mine host, quoth he, my string is well,
And laugh't, so that he leapt againe:
Looke to your wound for feare it swell,
And laugh't, so that he leapt againe:
Looke to your wound for feare it swell,
Your heart may hap to feele the paine.
– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as anonymously translated (1602)