Peasant Sitting at a Table, Smoking a Pipe

Johann Nepomuk Strixner

Cleveland Museum of Art

A man with a beard and receding hairline sits at a table, wearing a dark jacket over a white shirt. He holds a pipe in his mouth and a bowl or pipe in his left hand, with a small dish on the table in front of him. The man sits on a chair with a large stack of hay or straw behind him. He sits on a cloth. The image is in shades of gray, with a darker background and a lighter foreground. The image has a thick off-white border with a thin black line around the edge of the drawing. The drawing appears to be a print or engraving. The man looks to his right.