"A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn", Gerard ter Borch (December 1617 – 8 December 1681), Dutch

The first poster for Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" by Adolfo Hohenstein (18 March 1854 – 12 April 1928)

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"Grands Pharaons, nobles Lagides,
Verrez-vous entrer sans courroux,
Pour dormir dans vos pyramides,
Une reine indigne de vous?
A Typhon je livre mes jours!
Contre l'horreur qui m'environne
Un vil reptile est mon recours.
Cléopâtre en... quittant... la vie,
Redevient digne de... César!"

"Cleopatra Bitten by an Asp", Charles Gauthier (7 December 1831 – 5 January 1891), French

“Resting Venus”, Palma Vecchio (c. 1480 – 30 July 1528), Italian

"Winter in the Trinity", Nikolay Dubovskoy 17 December 1859 — 28 February 1918), Russian

"Two Geisha Reading from a Book", Gakutei Harunobu (1786 - 1868), Japanese

Birgit Nilsson in Turandot

“Evening Copenhagen”, Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 5 January 1934), Danish