In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
With this study of a disheveled person—perhaps a man named Patrick MacGregor—the popular society portraitist Samuel Waldo challenged assumptions that successful New Yorkers may have made about their city's prosperity. Waldo sold many copies of an engraving portraying "Old Pat" and made a finished portrait of him called The Beggar's Dessert that included a meager bone and bowl as attributes. In this painting, the sitter's gaunt, careworn features suggest considering him in sympathetic terms, yet his forceful gaze presents him as someone who cannot easily be made into an object of pity.
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Study of a Shepherd
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) — Man with 
Jean Jacques de Boissieu — Seated Beggar: Portrait of Old Gi
Paul Falconer Poole — Portrait Of A Man
Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866) — Head of an Old Man
Peder Severin Krøyer — Portræt af en fisker fra Hornbæk
Simon Kick — An Old Man with Folded Arms
Vladimir Egorovic Makovskij (Russian, 1846–1920) — Study of 
Alvan Clark
Adriaen Brouwer — Old craftsman
Rembrandt — Study Head of an Old Man
Samuel H. Crone (American, 1858–1913) — Smithy, study for "D
