Value

Hans Lesker
Self Portrait
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Lenbachhaus Munich

Lucas van Leyden
Self Portrait
ca. 1525-26
oil on panel
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Carl Goebel
Portrait of artist Josef Klieber
1844
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Govert Flinck
Head of a Man
ca. 1650
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giandomenico Tiepolo after Giambattista Tiepolo
Head Study
ca. 1772-73
etching and engraving
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Tobias Stimmer
Portrait of condottiero Ugoccione della Faggiuola
ca. 1570
woodcut
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Paul Cézanne
Self Portrait
ca. 1878-80
oil on canvas
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Wenceslaus Hollar after Karel Škréta
Head of a Young Man
1635
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Antonio Tempesta
Julius Caesar
1596
etching
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Henry Jones Thaddeus
Portrait of Corsican Fisherboy
1897
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Leopold Stolba
Spanish Nobleman
ca. 1890
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Giambattista Moroni
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Ferdinand Heilbuth
The Reader
1856
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Ottavio Leoni
Portrait of artist Tommaso Salini
1625
etching
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Anonymous German Artist
Portrait Study of a Youth
ca. 1510-20
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Christoph Unterberger
Grotesque Mask
before 1798
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Antony

     I thought how those white arms would fold me in,

     And strain me close, and melt me into love;

     So pleased with that sweet image, I sprung forwards,

     And added all my strength to every blow. 

Cleopatra

     Come to me, come, my soldier, to my arms!

     You've been too long away from my embraces;

     But when I have you fast, and all my own,

     With broken murmurs and with amorous sighs

     I'll say you were unkind, and punish you,

     And mark you red with many an eager kiss.

Antony

     My brighter Venus!

Cleopatra                      O my greater Mars!

Antony

     Thou join'st us well, my love!

     Suppose me come from the Phlegraean plains,

     Where gasping giants lay, cleft by my sword,

     And mountain tops pared off each other blow

     To bury those I slew.  Receive me, goddess!

     Let Caesar spread his subtle nets, like Vulcan:

     In thy embraces I would be beheld

     By Heaven and earth at once,

     And make their envy what they meant their sport.

     Let those who took us blush; I would love on

     With awful state, regardless of their frowns,

     As their superior god.

     There's no satiety of love in thee:

     Enjoyed, thou still art new; perpetual spring

     Is in thy arms; the ripened fruit but falls,

     And blossoms rise to fill its empty place,

     And I grow rich by giving.

– John Dryden, All for Love (1677)