Kraus, Georg Melchior (1737 Frankfurt am Main - Weimar 1806). Farewell: A peasant family says goodbye to their almost grown-up son, whose new master is already waiting at the door. Watercolor and brush in grey, over pencil, on laid paper. Depiction in the round. 10.1 x 10.6 cm. Reddened and traced on verso as well as an old attribution to J.A.B. Nothnagel (1729-1804). Preliminary drawing for an illustration. Provenance: Wilhelm Busch Collection, painter and draughtsman (1832-1908), according to oral tradition. ╔Including: Lavater (c. 1780/90), circle.╗ Physiognomic study of a boy with long hair and eyes of different sizes. Bust in three-quarter profile to the right. Watercolor and opaque colors, pen and black ink, with double brown pen line and light green watercolor border and black ink frame, on laid paper. 9.6 x 7.7 cm. Comparative literature: Catalog: Goethe and art. Edited by S. Schulze. Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, 1994, nos. 152-15 with color illus. (I.B. Fliedl, Lavater, Goethe und der Versuch eine Physiognomik als Wissenschaft). D