Two Women in the Kitchen
1895/1897
Medium
graphite and black chalk with stumping on old laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 51.3 x 41.9 cm (20 3/16 x 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
Accession Number
2007.111.118
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 ...