The Actor Nakamura Riko with a courtesan, from an untitled series of aiban prints depicting Actors in private life, c. 1781/82
Torii Kiyonaga
Theater Accident, New York, 1947, printed 1984
Irving Penn
Lovers on the Bench, plate fifteen from Mein Leben, 1922, published 1923
Marc Chagall
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
Anna Held, in Toutes ces Dames au Théâtre, 1894, published 1895
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Study for Raped, 1907
Käthe Kollwitz
Le Midi (Midday, from Quatre parties du jour), c.1778
Emmanuel Jean Nepomucene de Ghendt
Artichoke, Halved, 1930, printed 1953/54
Edward Weston
Portrait of Nakamura Kichiemon, Kabuki Actor, 1947
Sekino Jun’ichirō
Eye in Keyhole, New York, 1953, printed 1984
Irving Penn
Masks and faces, 1857–58
Paul Gavarni
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV and a geisha, from an untitled series of prints showing Actors in private life, c. 1783