Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile
1894 · Graphite, with stumping and wet brush, on wove paper · 41.7 × 29 cm (16 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Menzel, Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile, 1894. Graphite, with stumping and wet brush, on wove paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Regenstein Acquisition Fund
How to look at a Menzel
- Find the darkest passage and notice it is burnished, not hatched.
- Follow a single edge and see where it is hard, where it is lost, and why.
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