The beggar depicted here, known as the 'gondolier' for the walking staff he carried with him, was immortalized in portraits by both Model and André Kertész in the 1930s. The unusual newspaper mount was cleverly used by Model to demonstrate to newspaper editors her work in context as a tactic to sell them her images. Other examples of this rare mounting process are in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Canada.