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| Sigisbert-François Michel Head of a Woman 1798 marble Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Egon Schiele Self Portrait modeled 1916, cast 1980 bronze Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Jeremias Gottlob Rugendas Head of a Man ca. 1770 engraving Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel |
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| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Head of Young Woman ca. 1785 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johann Heinrich Lips after Henry Fuseli St John the Evangelist 1779 etching (book illustration) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Jan de Bisschop Bust of Emperor Galba ca. 1660-70 engraving Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich |
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| Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Portrait of Johann Reinhold Forster ca. 1780-85 pastel on paper Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Francesco Sesoni after Antonio Sebastiano Head from Ancient Roman Painting 1746 etching and engraving Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| attributed to Jean-François Garneray Portrait of Louis-Michel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau ca. 1793 oil on panel Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Pietro Antonio Novelli Portrait of Young Man ca. 1795 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Carlo Maratti Head of a Woman ca. 1680 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Christian Griepenkerl Portrait of Young Woman ca. 1900 drawing Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Frans Floris Study Head of Bearded Man ca. 1560 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Julia Margaret Cameron The Angel in the House 1873 albumen silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Anonymous Swiss Artist Portrait of artist Arnold Böcklin ca. 1890 watercolor and gouache on paper (design for stained glass) Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Jacob de Wit Study of Devout Woman before 1754 drawing Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
On a Picture of Medea – The art of Timomachus mingled the love and jealousy of Medea as she drags her children to death. She half consents as she looks at the sword, and half refuses, wishing both to save and to slay her children.
On a Picture of Medea – When the hand of Timomachus painted baleful Medea, pulled in diverse directions by jealousy and love of her children, he undertook vast labour in trying to draw her two characters, the one inclined to wrath, the other to pity. But he showed both to the full; look at the picture: in her threat dwell tears, and wrath dwells in her pity. The intention is enough, as the sage said. The blood of the children befitted Medea, not the hand of Timomachus.
On a Picture of Medea – Who, lawless Colchian, chronicled thy wrath in the picture? Who wrought thee, thus barbarous even in thy image? Dost thou yet thirst for thy babes' blood? Is some second Jason or another Glauce thy pretext? Out on thee, murderess of thy children, even in the painted wax. For the very picture feels that jealousy of thine that passed all bounds.
On a Picture of Medea – Come, look on the child murderess in a picture; look on her image, the Colchian's, drawn by the hand of Timomachus. The sword is in her hand, great is her wrath, wild is her eye, the tears are falling for her most unhappy children. The painter has made a medley of all, uniting things most uncombinable, but he refrained from reddening his hand with blood.
To a Swallow, which had built its Nest on the Picture of Medea – How, twittering swallow, didst thou suffer to have as nurse of thy children the Colchian woman, the vengeful destroyer of her babes, from whose bloodshot eye still flashes murderous fire, from whose jaws white foam still drips, whose sword is freshly bathed in blood? Fly from the fatal mother, who even in the wax is still slaying her children.
On a Statue of Medea – Though of stone thou art frenzied, and the fury of thy heart has hollowed thy eyes and made them meet to express thy anger. Yet not even thy base shall hold thee back, but thou shalt leap forward in thy wrath, mad because of thy children. Oh! who was the artist or sculptor who moulded this, who by his skill sent a stone mad?
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)