East Frisian Peasants Eating Supper
1893
Artist, German, 1847 - 1935
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal heightened with white chalk on light green wove paper, with later touches of red chalk along the top (recto); charcoal on greenish paper (verso)
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Merritt P. Dyke
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Dimensions
sheet: 44.3 x 60.4 cm (17 7/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.17
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Ernst Wolffsohn. Dr. Wolf Stubbe [1903-1994], Hamburg. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 35, 38, no. 113.
Bibliography
1995
Eberle, Matthias. Max Liebermann 1847-1935: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Ölstudien. 2 vols., Munich, 1995/1996: vol. 1, 357, under no. 1890/5.
Inscriptions
signed at upper right in charcoal: M. Liebermann; verso sketched in charcoal, a portrait of the poet Eduard Grisebach; inscribed at lower left in graphite: M Hagsmahl/Tee [?]; farther right: 3670
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64614137