Adolph von Menzel Alter Mann mit Vollbart und Handstudien, Adolph von Menzel, by 1881

Old man with a full beard. Carpenter's pencil on paper. 20. 7 x 13 cm. Preliminary study for the figure of the waiting farmer in the foreground in menzel's painting "grinding shop in the forge at hofgastein", 1881 (kunsthalle hamburg). Date: by 1881.