Art, literature & history
The Drinker (Portrait of Wirts Rauecker)
1874
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 21.91 × 15.08 cm (8 5/8 × 5 15/16 in.) sheet: 36.99 × 29.05 cm (14 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.129.17
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wilhelm Leibl. The Drinker (Portrait of Wirts Rauecker). Wilhelm Leibl; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation in Memory of Wolfgang Ratjen on the 75th Anniversary of His Birth. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Drinker (Portrait of Wirts Rauecker) — Wilhelm Leibl. 1874.
Medium: etching on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 21.91 × 15.08 cm (8 5/8 × 5 15/16 in.) sheet: 36.99 × 29.05 cm (14 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2018.129.17. Gift of the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation in Memory of Wolfgang Ratjen on the 75th Anniversary of His Birth.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.