Picasso's Blue Period from his works. Members of the public were uninterested in displaying the Blue Period works in their homes. Picasso continued his output, but his financial situation suffered: From 1901 to 1903, he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting "La Vie", painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The same mood pervades the well-known etching "The Frugal Repast" (1904) which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented in "The
Charles Shirreff (painter) portrait than any miniature painter she had sat to. During that period, he had clients for portraits in common with two other deaf miniaturists in Bath, Sampson Towgood Roch and Richard Crosse. In 1795, he renewed his application to go to India, and left England in the "Lord Hawkesbury", which reached Madras in January 1797. He painted in Madras for some years before moving to Calcutta, where he worked on his "Illustrations of Signs". In 1807, he announced it was nearly completed and would be available to subscribers as soon as possible. This work has never been traced and is