Portrait of an Old Peasant Woman, in Profile to the Right, and Peasant Woman with Closed Eyes
1874, printed 1880
Medium
electrotype on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 10 x 16.2 cm (3 15/16 x 6 3/8 in.) sheet: 21.9 x 27.1 cm (8 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel
Accession Number
2000.7.25
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 ...