Old Woman Mending at the Window

Prints and Drawings

1881

Max Liebermann
German, 1847-1935

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Liebermann
Title: Old Woman Mending at the Window
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1881
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite and blue crayon on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper right corner, in pen and black ink: M. Liebermann; lower right edge, in graphite, 1011
Dimensions: 31.1 × 25.6 cm (12 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Celia and David Hilliard Endowment
Reference Number: 2002.102
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René Menard, “Le Salon de 1881,” L’Art Revue hebdomadaire illustrée, VII (1881), p. 304 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection”, October 20, 2013 - February 16, 2014, pp. 150-151, 227-228, cat. 64 (ill.), cat by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Melissa Gustin

Private collection, Paris, before 2001 [a letter from Margreet Nouwen to Eva-Maria Worthington of May 5, 2002 in curatorial file and Hamburg 2001]. Galerie Franke, Munich [letter mentioned above]. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich [letter]. Sold by Hauswedell and Nolte, Hamburg, June 9, 2001, lot 1472. Sold by Eva-Marie Worthington, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 2002.

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