The drawing often draws comparisons to Edouard Manet's Olympia . It features Delvaux's signature theme of "bourgeois spectators" contemplating a nude figure, a motif also seen in his 1932 painting The Sleeping Venus .
This famous Post-Impressionist work depicts a scene inside a Parisian brothel. La visite
3. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: La Visite: Rue des Moulins (1894) The drawing often draws comparisons to Edouard Manet's
These were used as "calling cards" or traded among friends and relatives, often stored in specialized albums. La visite
It typically consisted of an albumen print on thin paper, mounted on a thicker cardboard backing (roughly
While the original is an oil on canvas, it has been widely reproduced as lithographs on heavy paper .