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| Félix Vallotton Portrait of Stéphane Nathanson 1897 oil on canvas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of a Man ca. 1715 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes |
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| Lié-Louis Périn Portrait of Madame Périn-Lenfumé 1804 (after a miniature of 1749) oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Portrait of Johannes de Stuers 1897 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Rosalba Carriera Portrait of poet Giambattista Recanati ca. 1720 pastel on paper Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Erich Dummer Portrait of Hildegard Heise ca. 1925 oil on canvas Museum Behnhaus, Lübeck |
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| Joseph de Saint-Michel Portrait of Marquis Henri Bernard Catherine de Sape 1764 (later guillotined) pastel on paper Musée Paul Dupuy, Toulouse |
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| Wilhelm Dachauer Portrait of architect Alexander Popp 1943 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Heinrich Grahn Portrait of a Bridegroom 1832 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Johann Appelius Woman with Mask 1753 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Portrait of Catharina von Koudelka ca. 1821-22 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| George Bellows Portrait of Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs Randall Davey) 1914 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anton Räderscheidt Portrait of Dr Hans Schmitt-Rost 1950 oil on canvas Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Pieter de Jode the Younger after Anthony van Dyck Portrait of scholar Theodore van Tulden ca. 1630-40 engraving Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Nicolas van Haften Democritus (the Laughing Philosopher) 1702 etching Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich |
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| Leopold Kupelwieser Portrait of a Woman 1827 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
On a Statue of Hermes – The place where I dwell is steep and desert, traveller; it is no fault of mine, but of Archelochus who set me up. For Hermes, Sir, is no lover of the mountains, no dweller on the hill-tops, but rather takes delight in roads; but Archelochus, being himself a lover of solitude and without neighbours, settled me, O passer-by, beside him, making me even as he is.
On a Statue of Pan – In the fane of Dictynna, where blaze the altar fires, did the Cretan erect me such as you see me in bronze, goat-footed Pan. I wear a skin and carry two hare-staves, and from the cave in the rock gaze with both eyes at the hill.
On the Statue of Pan on the Athenian Acropolis – On the citadel of Pallas did the Athenians set me up, trophy-bearing Pan wrought of Parian marble.
On Statues of Pan, the Nymphs and Danae – Goat-footed Pan with the wine-skin on his shoulder, and the Nymphs, and lovely Danae are all by Praxiteles. They are all of marble, and the hands that wrought them were supremely skilled. Momus himself will cry out, "Father Zeus, this was perfect skill."
On a Statue of Priapus – If I, Priapus, see you stepping near the kale, you thief, I will uncover your nakedness by the kale-bed itself. You will say that this is a shameful duty for a god to have. I know myself that it is shameful, but I would have you know that for this purpose I was set up.
On a Statue of Priapus – I, Priapus, stand as a guardian at the meeting of the roads, my club standing straight out from my thighs. For Theocritus set me up to serve him faithfully. But keep your distance, Sir thief, lest you weep, receiving this full part of me.
On a Statue of Priapus – I, Priapus, stand as a guardian at the meeting of the roads, my club standing straight out from my thighs. For Theocritus set me up to serve him faithfully. But keep your distance, Sir thief, lest you weep, receiving this full part of me.
– from Book XVI (Epigrams of the Planudean Anthology) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1918)


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