Mending the Nets

1894

Max Liebermann

Artist, German, 1847 - 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint and roulette, worked over in graphite and white heightening on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.773

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schiefler 1934, no. 33, State i/iiib

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Stinnes [1867-1932], Cologne (Lugt 1376a). Dr. August Maria Klipstein [b. 1885], Bern (Lugt 2373a). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 31, 2001; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1934

  • Schiefler, Gustav. Das Graphische Werk von Max Liebermann. Berlin: Verlang von Bruno Cassirer, 1934. Reprinted by Alan Wolfsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1991: no. 33, i/iiib

Inscriptions

signed at bottom right, in graphite: MLiebermann; at top right corner of the sheet, in graphite: 74; on verso, in graphite: 18952

Wikidata ID

Q76560412

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