Touching and lonely figures are keen on the favorite business of eccentrics.
In the painting “The Poor Poet” it is a writer in a nightcap lying on a mattress spread out on the floor, not paying attention to life and being absorbed only by creativity.
Related Paintings
Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg 
Lovers of cacti by Karl Spitzweg 
Portrait of the poet GR Derzhavin-1795 by Vladimir Borovikovsky 
Portrait of the poet Alonso Ersily-i-Sunigi by El Greco 
Amant de cactus – Karl Spitzweg 
Rat de bibliothèque – Karl Spitzweg 
Portrait of NN Goncharova by Karl Bryullov 
Saint Peter distributing community property among the poor by Masaccio