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 .
It typically consisted of an albumen print on thin paper, mounted on a thicker cardboard backing (roughly 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. often stored in specialized albums.