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Portrait of an Old Man
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About this work
This charcoal study by Cleveland-based artist John Kavanagh shows the dramatic use of contrasting light and shade (chiaroscuro) and the detailed modeling favored by students at the Royal Academy in Munich, where the artist studied in the early 1880s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait of an Old Man, c. 1884. John Kavanagh (American, 1857–1898). Charcoal; framing line in graphite (lower margin); sheet: 49 x 38.7 cm (19 5/16 x 15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. J. Weatherhead, 1944.8
