Nudes
A theme which is particularly interesting as it has not often been talked about. In 1902, a number of painters, including Rouault and Marquet, shared an appartment in rue Rochechouart in Paris. They were said to have asked prostitutes to come in from the street to warm up. These girls would have served as models for the painters. Rouault, who wanted to portray the misery of mankind, painted these girls with the goal of stigmatising the horror of prostitution.