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| Antoine Pesne Portrait of Sophie Dorothea, Queen of Prussia 1737 oil on canvas Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin |
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| Francesco Ponte Costume Design (for opera Solimano by Johann Adolph Hasse) ca. 1753 watercolor on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Gaetano Gandolfi Exotic Heads ca. 1775 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Matthew William Peters Lydia ca. 1776 oil on canvas Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Robert Delaunay after Jean-Michel Moreau Les Adieux 1777 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Nicolas Dupin after Claude-Louis Desrais Young Woman in Morning Dress ca. 1778-80 hand-colored engraving National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Henry Fuseli Portrait of Sophia Fuseli ca. 1795 drawing Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand |
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| Robert Lefèvre Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese 1803 oil on canvas Château de Malmaison |
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| Jean-Baptiste Liénard Portrait of Zélie-Charmette Courtoit ca. 1815 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Châlons-en-Champagne |
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| Nicolas-Louis-François Gosse Battle of the Acropolis 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery, Athens |
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| Eugène Delacroix Portrait of Madame François Simon 1829 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| Jean-Augustin Franquelin Woman adjusting Coiffure in Mirror ca. 1830 oil on canvas Musée de Brou à Bourg-en-Bresse |
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| Constantin Guys Seated Woman ca. 1850 watercolor on paper Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Armand Cambon Le Billet 1851 oil on canvas Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban |
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| Anonymous German Artist Fashion Plate for Young Girls 1854 hand-colored etching Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Franz Krüger Study of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia 1857 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Pindar, holy mouth of the Muses, and thou, Bacchylides, garrulous Siren, and ye, Aeolian graces of Sappho; pen of Anacreon, and thou, Stesichorus, who in thy works didst draw off Homer's stream; honeyed page of Simonides, and thou, Ibycus, who didst cull the sweet bloom of Persuasion of the love of lads; sword of Alcaeus, that didst often shed the blood of tyrants, defending his country's laws, and ye nightingales of Alcman, singing ever of maidens; look kindly on me, ye authors and finishers of all lyric song.
These are the volumes of Aristophanes, a divine work, over which the ivy of Acharnae shook in profusion its green locks. Look how the pages are steeped in Dionysus, how deep-voiced are the dramas full of terrible grace. O comic poet, high of heart, and worthy interpreter of the spirit of Hellas, hating what deserved hate, and mocking where mockery was due!
The bees themselves, culling the varied flowers of the Muses, bore off the honey to thy lips; the Graces themselves bestowed their gift on thee, Menander, endowing thy dramas with fluent felicity. Thou livest for ever, and Athens from thee derives glory that reacheth to the clouds of heaven.
This is the Lesbian honeycomb of Erinna, and though it be small, it is all infused with honey by the Muses. Her three hundred lines* are equal to Homer, though she was but a child of nineteen years. Either plying her spindle in fear of her mother, or at the loom, she stood occupied in the service of the Muses. As much as Sappho excels Erinna in lyrics, so much Erinna excels Sappho in hexameters.
On Lycophron's Cassandra – Not easily, being in my labyrinth of many turnings, shalt thou find thy way to the light, if at all. So ill to read is the prophetic message that Cassandra, Priam's daughter, tells here to the King in crooked speech. Yet, if Calliope love thee, take me up; but if thou art ignorant of the Muses, I am a weight in thy hands.
On the Tactics of Orbicius – Look on me, the book pregnant with vigorous toil, the book that the Emperor Hadrian had by him in his wars, but which for ages lay disused and nearly forgotten. But Anastasius, our powerful emperor, brought me to light again, that I might help his campaigns. For I can teach the labours of murderous war; and I know how, with me, thou shalt destroy the men of the western seas, and the Persians, and the doomed Saracens, and the swift cavalry of the warlike Huns, and the Isaurians taking refuge on their rocky summits. I will bring all things under the sceptre of Anastasius, whom time brought into the world to outshine even Trajan.
– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)
*only four lines have survived