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Risqué refers to something that is slightly sexually, suggestive or boring on indecency.
Often just cheeky, daring or a little rude.
The drawing presents two women in side profile undergoing a formal medical inspection. Their bodies are shown with unusual directness and little idealization, emphasizing physical difference, posture, and the clinical gaze of the observer. Set against a plain background, the figures appear almost like anatomical or documentary studies rather than conventional portraits. The handwritten caption identifies it as The Medical Inspection by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, dated 1894, giving the image a historical and observational character.
