The Engagement of an Artist. “- So you want an engagement in my theatre..... very well Mademoiselle...... since you are so pretty, it will be 1200 Francs.... that's of course what you will be paying me each year! - I accept... under the condition that I will not get a raise!,” plate 72 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie, 1845
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Anxiety, 1896
Edvard Munch
Lovers on the Bench, plate fifteen from Mein Leben, 1922, published 1923
Marc Chagall
“- Here, Eudoxie, take my bear skin... since from now on I will not have the pleasure any more to wear it, I give it to you to make a muff out of it... This way I have at least the satisfaction of seeing it from time to time”, 1848
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Le Midi (Midday, from Quatre parties du jour), c.1778
Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt
Grant Advertising, Inc., Perspective Painting, Presentation Drawing, Unknown Date
Bertrand Goldberg
Masks and faces, 1857–58
Paul Gavarni
Mme. Horace Vernet, 1818
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
The Family of Saltimbanques, February 16, 1954
Pablo Picasso
Canto XIV, from Rauschenberg: XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno, 1964
Robert Rauschenberg
Squash with Squirrel Skeleton, plate 35 from Méndez: 25 Prints, 1945
Leopoldo Méndez
Moles, 1854
Félix Henri Bracquemond
Minotaure in Love with a Woman Centaur, from the Vollard Suite, May 23, 1933, reworked 1934, printed 1939
Pablo Picasso
A Magician, A Soldier, and Three Figures Watching a Burning Skull, from Scherzi, 1735–40