Pencil and black chalk
Monogrammed and dated lower left. On wove paper, laid on cardboard. 34,5 x 60 cm (13,5 x 23,6 in), size of sheet
Detailed illustration of two reptilesand a naked old man, hovering and fighting against one another, entwined like a Laocoön group. [DB].

PROVENANCE: Councilor of commerce Carl Leonhardt, Zwickau.
Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Das Werk von Richard Müller, 175 Bilder und Text, released by Franz Hermann Meißner, Loschwitz-Dresden 1921, with illu. between p. 44 and p. 48.