Artists by Artists

I've thought of putting together a collection of portraits of artists depicted by other artists. Works like that have always interested me particularly, for they illustrate connections and relationships you never thought existed between individual names.

Did you know for instance that there was a close group of Impressionists living and working side by side in Paris, but that Edgar Degas was never a part of them due to quarrels? I find such trivia fascinating and it's time I started recording it.

First is old friend Van Gogh drawn by my beloved Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1887:

Observing a work like this I begin imagining how the sitting for the portrait may have taken place. The idea alone that two such talents were in the same room together excites me. There is surely a story behind it. Oh how I'd like to know every such story.