Portrait of an Old Man
Medium
charcoal; framing line in graphite (lower margin)
Dimensions
49 × 38.7 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. A. J. Weatherhead
Accession Number
1944.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
This charcoal study by Cleveland-based artist John Kavanagh shows the dramatic use of contrasting light and shade (chiaroscuro) and the detailed modeling favored by students at the Royal Academy in Munich, where the artist studied in the early 1880s.