Studies of a Man Drinking
Adolph Menzel
1888
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.2 x 12.4 cm (7 15/16 x 4 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1984.3.19
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Adolph Menzel · 1815–1905
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter, draftsman, and printmaker who became the most celebrated German artist of the nineteenth century and one of the most technically accomplished realists in European art. Born Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), he moved to Berlin as a teenager and was largely self-taught, taking over his father's lithographic business ...