Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth

Inscription: Signed and dated (right center): W. Leibl / 1885

[J. Littauer, Munich, 1893–94; purchased from the artist in 1893; sold in 1894 to Stein]; Stein, Munich (in 1894); [Hugo Helbing, Munich; sold to Thannhauser]; [Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich, by 1913–14; sold in 1914 to Stransky]; Josef Stransky, New York (1914–16)

Wolfsburg, Germany. Goetheschule. "Ausstellung Wilhelm Leibl," October 3–17, 1954, no. 39.

Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover. "Ausstellung Wilhelm Leibl," November 1–21, 1954, no. 38.

New London. Lyman Allyn Art Museum. "The Art of J. Frank Currier, 1843–1909, and Painters of the Munich School," February 9–March 9, 1958, no. 59.

Georg Biermann. "Die Kunst auf dem Internationalen Markt: I. Gemälde aus dem Besitz der Modernen Galerie Thannhauser, München." Der Cicerone 5, no. 9 (1913), p. 313, ill. p. 308, calls it "Kopf einer Bäuerin" in the text and "Bäuerin" in the caption; notes that Leibl lived in Aibling when he painted this picture.

Wilhelm Trübner. Sammlung Stransky: Deutsche Meister des XIX.Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1914, unpaginated, ill.

Emil Waldmann. Wilhelm Leibl. Berlin, 1914, p. 179, no. 182, pl. 157, as in the collection of the Kunsthandlung Thannhauser, Munich.

Frank E. Washburn-Freund. "Die Sammlung Stransky: Ein Vorposten Deutscher Kunst in Amerika." Der Cicerone 8 (1916), pp. 210, 271, fig. 3.

B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "German Pictures Bought Out of the Reisinger Fund." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (January 1917), pp. 6–8, ill.

Carl Georg Heise. "Amerikanische Museen." Kunst und Künstler 23 (September 1925), p. 342.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, pp. 58–59.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 238, ill., as "Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth".

Leibl painted a similar portrait of a young woman with a white headcloth, only gazing directly at the viewer (about 1876; Neue Pinakothek, Munich).