Three coopers working to repair barrels in a German monastery cellar are served with tankards of beer. Etching by Carl Vaditz after Eduard Grützner.

"'The monastery cellar.'—The monks of old were famous for their hospitality, and in Grützner's picture we have monks of modern type heartily entertaining the coopers who have come to put in order the barrels and the cellar of the German monastery. Good-nature and satisfaction with this world's providings are exhibited on the faces of the monks, who with the strangers, seem quite ready for the repast. The etcher of the picture, Carl Vaditz, is a native of Zerbst, about eighty miles from Berlin, where he was born in 1850. At the time of the Franco-German war he entered as a volunteer into the Anhalt regiment, with which he saw much actual service, coming through the campaign unscathed. In 1878 he commenced to study art at Munich, studying drawing and painting, and latterly he has exercised himself with etching. The painter, Edward Grützner, is well known on the Continent, and one of his pictures was engraved in The art journal of this year, at page 34. He was born at Neisse, in Silesia, in 1846, and entered the studio of Piloty, his chief works being representations of monastic life."--The art journal, loc. cit.