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
Lovers on the Bench, plate fifteen from Mein Leben, 1922, published 1923
Marc Chagall
Anxiety, 1896
Edvard Munch
Two warriors, one seated asleep on a foreground rock, from Figurine series, n.d.
Salvator Rosa
Courtesan Plying Shojo with Sake, no. 4 from a series of 12 prints, c. 1708
Okumura Masanobu
Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1936, printed later
Dorothea Lange
Truman Capote, New York, 1965, printed 1986
Irving Penn
Le Midi (Midday, from Quatre parties du jour), c.1778
Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt
Study for Raped, 1907
Käthe Kollwitz
Anna Held, in Toutes ces Dames au Théâtre, 1894, published 1895
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Komachi resting on a stupa, no. 6 from a series of 12 prints, c. 1708
Okumura Masanobu
Mouth (for L'Oréal), New York, 1986, printed 1992
Irving Penn
Masks and faces, 1857–58
Paul Gavarni
A warrior sits on a block and gestures; two figure are behind him, from Figurine series, n.d.
Salvator Rosa
Portrait of Nakamura Kichiemon, Kabuki Actor, 1947
Sekino Jun’ichirō
Mme. Horace Vernet, 1818
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
The Family of Saltimbanques, February 16, 1954
Pablo Picasso
La Gismonda (Sarah Bernhardt), 1894/95
Alphonse Marie Mucha
Moles, 1854
Félix Henri Bracquemond
The Clothing of the Prisoner of war, c. 1915
Jean Louis Forain