Le Jeune Homme et Rita

Robert Doisneau

1954

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A smiling woman wearing a bonnet and long sleeve dress is holding a laughing child that wears a feathered hat and long dress.
A young girl stands with her head down and arms at her side as her mother makes adjustments to her dress that is made to mimic that of Lopokava, a famous Russian ballerina.
A large group of men gather around a circular table where a human body is being disected. A man sits in the center in a throne-like chair and points at the body with staff. Hogarth published this set to alert his contemporaries about the cruel treatment that animals had to endure in eighteenth century England.
Scene of nude women dancing with high society men. A prince or king dances in the middle with two of the women.