Vincent Van Gogh: Newly discovered drawing goes on display.

A previously unseen Vincent van Gogh drawing of an exhausted old man has been discovered, a museum dedicated to the artist has confirmed. Study for Worn Out was drawn early in the artist's career in 1882, the Van Gogh Museum said on Thursday. The sketch has been been sitting in a Dutch family's private collection for more than a century. But on Thursday, it went on display at the Amsterdam museum for the first time. 'Out in the open'

The public will be able to see it until 2 January, before it is returned to the private collection. The small pencil drawing, signed "Vincent", depicts an elderly labourer dressed in a waistcoat, trousers and boots, sitting on a wooden chair with his head in his hands. "This one has never been seen before anywhere. It's the first time that this drawing is out in the open," said Teio Meedendorp, senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. He told it was "absolutely impossible" to say how much it was worth. Van Gogh appeared to have used the drawing as the basis for a slightly different version of the drawing shortly afterwards, which he preferred, and which is currently in the museum's collection under the title Worn Out