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The Drinker (Portrait of Wirts Rauecker)

1874

Wilhelm Leibl

Associated Names

Wilhelm Leibl

Artist, German, 1844 - 1900

The image shows a man seated and turned slightly to the left. He is holding a glass in his right hand at chest level. The man has a mustache and crinkled eyes, with curly or wavy hair mostly covered by a cap. He is dressed in a loosely-fitted jacket and a shirt or scarf underneath. The background is plain with cross-hatching suggesting depth.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching on chine collé on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation in Memory of Wolfgang Ratjen on the 75th Anniversary of His Birth
Dimensions

image: 21.59 × 14.61 cm (8 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.)
sheet: 40.64 × 33.34 cm (16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Accession Number

2018.129.16
Catalogue Raisonné

Billeter 1994, no. B4, State ?/vi

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz; Gift 2018 to NGA.

Associated Names

Stiftung Ratjen

Bibliography

1994

Billeter, Felix, et al. Wilhelm Leibl: zum 150. Geburtstag. Heidelberg, 1994: no. B4, State ?/vi.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: W. Leibl 1874; lower left verso in graphite: D420 [underlined]

Markings

blindstamp: GESELLSCHAFT FÜR VERVIELFÄLT. KUNST WIEN [in oval]

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