For example, Thomas’s piece shows a woman fully exposed laying on a couch where it can be insinuated that she is fully aware and comfortable in her positioning, yet in the French painter’s work the woman is covering herself in shame with her arms crossing her chest as if she was reluctant to be exposed and had very little choice in how she was presented. One may argue that whether or not the woman in the French painter’s work is covering herself, she still had a choice in how she was represented in the painting. However, in “The Black Female Body” by Deborah Willis and Carla Williams from Temple University, this is refuted with their claim, “…sometimes the women posed willingly, either for pay or not. While we do not suggest that these women should be castigated for posing, we, as historians, must resist the impulse to see only what we want to see.” Although black women were objectified in art they often ended up posing for portraits to earn money since blacks were financially inept due to the repercussions of slavery as well as other various reasons. The fact of the matter is