Kollwitz devoted her career to depicting the working poor and urban laborers with the same profound empathy and dignity found in Daumiers Street Singers. Her printmaking work shares the monochromatic economy of line and deep social conscience that characterizes this piece.

Doré was a contemporary French artist who used wood engraving to document urban street life and the hardships of the working class with expressive figurative linework. His illustrations of city dwellers in London and Paris share the same black and white graphic language and social observation present in this piece.

Millet was a fellow nineteenth century French artist deeply committed to portraying ordinary laborers and the poor with dignity rather than condescension, mirroring the sympathetic social commentary in Daumiers Street Singers. His figurative work conveys the weight of hardship through restrained but emotionally resonant compositions.