1892
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ernest Renan is a 1892 ink by Anders Zorn, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a man sitting in a dark room. He's wearing a dark jacket and has long hair. There are books and papers on a table behind him. The man looks serious, and the room is dimly lit. The painting is done in dark colors, with lots of lines and shading. It gives a sense of the man being deep in thought. The artist has used a lot of detail to show the textures of the man's clothes and the books. If you like this painting, you might also want to look at the work of other artists who used similar techniques, like etching and drypoint.
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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