Increasingly, though, his energies were devoted to mixed-media drawings in blackchalk, watercolour, pen and ink, often depicting Parisian street life: drinkers, gossips, entertainers, railway passengers.
Limned with equal sensitivity are two chalk drawings by Paolo Veronese, "Study of a Black Youth Eating" (c. 1580) and "Study of the Head of a Black Man" (c.1573).