Leibl's Mother
1874
Medium
etching on japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 18.1 × 13.65 cm (7 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 49.53 × 32.07 cm (19 1/2 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation in Memory of Wolfgang Ratjen on the 75th Anniversary of His Birth
Accession Number
2018.129.18
About the Artist
Wilhelm Leibl · 1844–1900
Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) was the foremost German Realist painter of the nineteenth century, a figure who dedicated his career to an uncompromising fidelity to observed reality at a time when idealized academic painting still dominated official taste. Born in Cologne, he studied at the Munich Academy under Karl von Piloty, but the decisive influence on his development came from his encounter with ...