MAX LIEBERMANN, (1847-1935)

Studie für 'Paulus mit der Schlange vor den Maltesern'

Studie für 'Paulus mit der Schlange vor den Maltesern'
signed 'MLiebermann' (lower right)
charcoal on brown paper
41.3 x 31.2cm (16 1/4 x 12 5/16in).
Executed in 1898

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dr. Margreet Nouwen.

Provenance
(Possibly) Anon. sale, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 2 June 1962, lot 761.
Gilden's Art Gallery, London.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above).

The present work is a preparatory study for the left-hand side of Paulus mit der Schlange vor den Maltesern, a work that Liebermann made for an illustrated bible from 1901.