29. Max Liebermann
(1847-1938)

Der Weber (Le Tisserand)

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Liebermann, Der Weber

Der Weber (Le Tisserand)

Etching, 1883, Schiefler 2 ii/ii, 188 x 256 mm. Fine impression, as published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, with the French title, on laid paper with small margins at the sides, trimmed on or inside the platemark at the top and bottom but well outside the image and text ; slight toning of the paper across the whole image. This is Liebermann’s own etching after his painting, an early work filled with the detail he would later eschew, as his style turned from realism to impressionism. The painting was on view (as the text states) at the Galerie de M. Georges Petit, and it is easy to see why the French would have liked it as it was totally in accord with the French realist tradition.