1893
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
A Toast II is a 1893 ink by Anders Zorn, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a bearded man in a dark coat, holding a glass in one hand and a folded paper or napkin in the other. His face is turned slightly away, and the lines around his eyes and mouth are sharply drawn. The background is full of quick, crisscrossed strokes that blur the setting, leaving just a hint of another person’s arm and a table. The artist used a technique where lines pile up to create shadows and texture—this is called drypoint. The rough edges make the image feel alive, like you’re seeing a moment frozen in time. Next, check out etching to see how artists like this one carve into metal plates to print images.
Anders Leonard Zorn was born in February 1860 in Mora, Dalarna, the illegitimate son of a Bavarian brewer and a Swedish farmer's daughter; his mother died shortly after his birth, and his grandparents raised him.
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