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The artist [Adolph Menzel] had a deep sympathy for the Prussian king [Frederick the Great]. In one of his letters to Johann Jakob Weber, he said that it was his intention to represent the monarch as a man who was both hated and admired—simply as he was, in other words, as a man of the people.