Adolph Von MENZEL
A Man Drinking
Date October 1884
Epoque 1850-1900, 19th century
Origine Germany
Medium With stumping, Graphite (carpenter’s pencil)
Dimension 22.6 x 14.7 cm (8⁷/₈ x 5³/₄ inches)
Another study for the same figure is found in a sketchbook used by Menzel between 1884 and 1892 and today in the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. A preparatory drawing for a different figure in the gouache Spa Guests at the Warm Kettle in Kissingen, depicting a woman drinking, was in a private collection in Hamburg in 1982, while a study of another woman in the same painting is today in the Museen für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck in Lübeck.
Six years later, in 1890, Menzel painted a larger gouache of a similar Kissingen subject, though horizontal in format and different in composition; this painting was with the Galerie Abels in Cologne in 1975. A somewhat analogous drawing of a man drinking, dated 1888 and formerly in the collection of Julius Held in Vermont, was used for this later painting.
Date: October 1884
Epoque: 1850-1900, 19th century
Origine: Germany
Medium: With stumping, Graphite (carpenter’s pencil)
Signature: Signed with initials and dated A.M. / Oct. 84 at the lower right.
Dimension: 22.6 x 14.7 cm (8⁷/₈ x 5³/₄ inches)
Provenance: Private collection, in 1976
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 12 October 1994, lot 326
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, in 1995.
Literature: Heidi Ebertshaüser, Adolph von Menzel: Das graphische werk, Munich, 1976, Vol.II, p.1192; ‘Round the Galleries: A selection of current exhibitions and works of art on the market’, Apollo, July 1995, p.69.
Exhibition: London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Nineteenth Century Drawings, 1995, no.18 (as Taking the Waters).
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