Weeping Man
1850/59 · Graphite on off-white wove paper · 13.1 × 8.1 cm (5 3/16 × 3 1/4 in.)

Menzel, Weeping Man, 1850/59. Graphite on off-white wove paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt
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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