Portrait of an Old Peasant Woman, in Profile to the Right, and Peasant Woman with Closed Eyes

1874, printed 1880

Wilhelm Leibl

Artist, German, 1844 - 1900

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    electrotype on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10 x 16.2 cm (3 15/16 x 6 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 21.9 x 27.1 cm (8 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.7.25

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Billeter 1994, no. B7-8 (electrotype mentioned)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1880

  • Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 1, no. 11 (September 1880). page 483.

1994

  • Billeter, Felix, et al. Wilhelm Leibl: zum 150. Geburtstag. Heidelberg, 1994: B7-8.

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: W. Leibl. / 1874; upper left in plate: W. Leibl / 74.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Holland

Wikidata ID

Q75425957


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