Woman and Her Goats in the Dunes
Liebermann recorded this plein-air motif in his sketchbook while in Holland in the summer of 1889. The following winter he executed the painting in his Berlin studio. It seems to capture a specific moment and yet conveys at once, through the rigid composition, the hardship and solitude as well as the greatness and endurance of this peasant life.
Vasily Polenov
1883
Raphael Kirchner
1903
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