Male Head
This unfinished sketch offers a fascinating glimpse into the Romantic era's focus on individual character, capturing a male head that is only partially brought to life. While faint, ghostly outlines suggest voluminous curly hair and a jawline, the intense gaze of the eyes and the bridge of the nose are rendered in sharp, dark ink with meticulous hatching. The artist, Eugen Eduard Schäffer, seems to have focused intently on capturing the brooding soul of the subject—likely the famous painter Peter von Cornelius, whose name is scribbled at the top—leaving the rest of the face as a mysterious, unfinished ghost.
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