Portrait of a Peasant Woman
1884 · Charcoal and graphite on paper · 19.5 × 12.5 cm (7 11/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Menzel, Portrait of a Peasant Woman, 1884. Charcoal and graphite on paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Purchased with funds provided by George A. Poole, Jr.
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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