03 — ARTWORK
A Peasant Woman
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 20 x 16 cm
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Leibl belonged to an international movement that found the last bastion of integrity in peasant life. This group included Courbet, whom Leibl met in Munich in 1859. Later Leibl came to know many other French painters, mostly members of the Barbizon schoolA group of naturalist landscape painters who worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s. Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867) was the founder of the group. Other members of the group were Jean-Baptist Corot (French, 1796-1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (French, 1807-1876), Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865), Jules Dupré (French, 1811-1889), Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875), and Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). Their approach constituted an art movement which eventually led to both Realism and Impressionism. Daubigny was the first of the plein air painters., whom the artist encountered in Paris in 1870.
At his best, Leibl possessed an austere and impressive talent. His peasant subjects were often posed for by the artists's relatives. The head of a peasant woman shows an almost Degas-like sharpness of focus and lack of sentimentality with an impressive combination of clear-eyed objectivity and innate elegance.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {A Peasant Woman by LEIBL, Wilhelm},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
