Issue RT-14027 (http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-14027) is marked as Resolved, however in Build 42 I am seeing the behaviour of the original poster.

My classpath directory structure looks like this:

/stylesheet.css
/images/my-image.png
/com/zonski/jfx/TestApplication.class

stylesheet.css:

  .imageView {
      -fx-image: url("images/my-image.png");
      -fx-cursor: hand;
  }

TestApplication.java:

  public class TestApplication extends Application
  {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Application.launch(TestApplication.class, args);
    }

    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception
    {
        VBox box = new VBox();
        ImageView imageView = new ImageView();
        imageView.getStyleClass().add("imageView");
        box.getChildren().add(imageView);

        Scene scene = new Scene(box);
        scene.getStylesheets().add("stylesheet.css");
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.setWidth(1024);
        stage.setHeight(768);
        stage.show();
    }
  }

Some interesting things of note:

* If I set the image explicitly in code (using imageView.setImage(new Image(getClass().getResourceAsStream("images/my-image.png"), I still don't see my image
* If I remove the -fx-image attribute however _and_ set the image in code I do see my image (and the 'hand' cursor appears when I mouse over it.