diff --git a/tests/root/subdir/includes.txt b/tests/root/subdir/includes.txt
index 3e1ae0d13..53a6bd29a 100644
--- a/tests/root/subdir/includes.txt
+++ b/tests/root/subdir/includes.txt
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ Including in subdir
    :lines: 2
 
 Absolute :download:`/img.png` download.
+
+.. absolute image filename
+.. image:: /img.png
diff --git a/tests/test_build_html.py b/tests/test_build_html.py
index 4082cabfe..93a015daf 100644
--- a/tests/test_build_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_build_html.py
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ HTML_XPATH = {
     },
     'subdir/includes.html': {
         ".//a[@href='../_downloads/img.png']": '',
+        ".//img[@src='../_images/img.png']": '',
     },
     'includes.html': {
         ".//pre": u'Max Strauß',