Peasant Woman with Closed Eyes
Wilhelm Leibl
1874
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection
Accession Number
2015.143.160
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 ...