Mending the Nets
1894
Medium
etching, drypoint and roulette, worked over in graphite and white heightening on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23.1 × 31.1 cm (9 1/8 × 12 1/4 in.) sheet: 29.8 × 43.6 cm (11 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.773
About the Artist
Max Liebermann · 1847–1935
Max Liebermann (1847–1935) was the towering figure of German Impressionism, an artist whose long career and formidable institutional influence made him the dominant voice in German painting for more than four decades. Born in Berlin into a wealthy Jewish family, he received his earliest training at the Weimar School of Art before traveling to Paris, where sustained exposure to the French Barbizon ...