Malresl Working in the Kitchen
c. 1898
Artist, German, 1844 - 1900

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with stumping and erasures on polished wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.7 x 31.3 cm (16 x 12 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2007.111.117
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Max Silberberg [d. 1944], Breslau; (sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, 12 October 1935, no. 64). (Sale, Karl und Faber, Munich, 30 May 1975, no. 448); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; repurchased 2003 by Ratjen Foundation from the heirs of Max Silberberg; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Wilhelm Leibl und sein Malerkreis, Städtische Galerie. Rosenheim, 1985, no. 81 (Eberhard Ruhmer).
1994
Wilhelm Leibl zum 150. Geburtstag, Neue Pinakothek, Munich; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1994, 504, no. 174.
2010
German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, NGA, 2010: 38, 39, no. 116, under no. 115.
2019
Wilhelm Leibl: The Art of Seeing, Kunsthaus Zürich and The Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020, no. 98, repro.
Bibliography
1978
Ebertshäuser, Heidi. "Die Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz." Graphische Kunst 10 (1978): 2 (reprod.).
1995
Falk, Tilman, ed. Von Cranach bis Beckmann. Exh. cat. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1995: 124, under no. 51 (entry by Gisela Scheffler).
2001
Lachenmann, David. "Wolfgang Ratjen as Collector." Master Drawings 39 (2001): 110 and fig. 8.
2006
Manstein, Marianne von. "Wilhelm Leibl. Das zeichnerische Werk (mit einem Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen." Unpublished dissertation. Munich, 2006: no. 153.
Inscriptions
signed at lower left in graphite: W. Leibl; at upper right in different graphite: 29.38; at lower right in another hand: 13209; verso at lower center: 2050 zbiu [?]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64635869