Signed charcoal pencil drawing of a Roman bust from late 19th-century France, mounted in a thin gray painted wooden frame. With its academic classicism and impeccable attention to detail, the piece is compelling for the way it depicts both art and man at once. Beautiful as part of a tableau, or on its own.

France, circa 1880

Dimensions: 13.5W x 1D x 20H

What a brute.