Description: The artist needs assistance to remove soap from his hair. This drawing was featured on the cover of l'Escarmouche in December 1893

Description: Color lithograph poster for the seventh Salon des Cent

Description: This is a preparatory drawing used in the creation of a graphic lithograph. Ink, wash, watercolor, graphite, and gouache.

Description: This water color features a heavy-set woman about to pose for a photographer. The piece probably dates to the mid 1890s. He appears to have a Rochester Optical New Model Camera which was in production throughout the 1890s. Her swimsuit is typical of the early to mid-1890s style. Courtesy of FC Fine Art

Description: Jean de La Fontaine was a 17th century fabulist and poet. His Fables remain in print to this day. Hermann-Paul illustrated the 1897 printing. While we may address these jackasses with "Your Honor", it is the postion - not the person - that is due respect...

Description: Protectorates are autonomous territories defended by a more powerful states. In the late 19th Century, France used this legal mechanism to advance colonial ambitions. Critics such as Hermann-Paul readily exposed hypocrisies between policy and rhetoric.

Description: The interior of this home is richly decorated.

Description: In the eyes of the French political left, colonial expansion was a brutish affair. France lost its soul and indigenous their lives.

Description: Hermann-Paul sketched the playwright Alfred Jarry a year after he achieve fame with Ubu Roi. The premeire was attended by traditionalists and avant garde in equal numbers. The main character's very first word touched off a storm among the former. "Shit!" He intoned. Around the time of this drawing, Jarry attended a literary dinner. He got drunk and took exception with the Belgian poet Christian Beck. Jarry pulled a pistol and fired at him. He died in 1907 of too much tuberculosis, drugs and alcohol. His final request was for a toothpick.

Description: Another illustration Jean de La Fontaine's Fables.