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Adolph von Menzel

Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind

1893
graphite (carpenter's pencil), with stumping

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Adolph Menzel drew continuously and had a special coat made with deep pockets to hold his sketchpad, pencils, shading stumps, and gum eraser.

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