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Three Women in Church by Wilhelm Leibl, 1878–1882, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Prayer and Devotion

Three Women in Church

Wilhelm Leibl (German, 1844–1900)

1878–1882 · Öl auf Mahagoniholz (oil on mahogany) · Hamburger Kunsthalle

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About this painting

The young one has not got her gloves off; she holds the open prayer book in bare, reddened hands, a straw hat with a gold band on her head and a white shawl printed with flowers over her bodice. Beside her an old woman in a black headscarf bends over her own book, and behind them a third, older still, kneels in profile with her hands folded, looking at the altar we cannot see. Wilhelm Leibl painted them on a mahogany panel inside the village church at Berbling in Bavaria, over three and a half years from 1878, and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which bought the picture in 1906, records that real countrywomen sat for it, that the three are the ages of life and three stages of prayer, and that he took the figures from Holbein's Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer. The carved pew ends, the dust on them, the stoneware jug on the floor are all there. So is the Mass, going on just out of the picture.

Sources: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 'Drei Frauen in der Kirche', HK-1534; read 2026-10-15.

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The Record
Date 1878–1882
Collection Hamburger Kunsthalle
Subject Prayer and Devotion
Season Ordinary Time
Master 4,596 px
License Public domain (PD-Art, US); faithful reproduction on Wikimedia Commons; the Kunsthalle's own photograph is ordered through Artothek
Attribution Hamburger Kunsthalle · HK-1534

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Wilhelm Leibl (Köln 1844 - 1900 Würzburg)
Date 1878/82
Medium Öl auf Mahagoniholz (oil on mahogany)
Dimensions 113cm x 77cm (Bild); 135cm x 98cm (Rahmen)
Holding Hamburger Kunsthalle · HK-1534

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The file this print is made from

Source Wilhelm Leibl - Drei Frauen in der Kirche (1882).jpg
Master 4,596 px on the long edge
Rights Public domain (PD-Art, US); faithful reproduction on Wikimedia Commons; the Kunsthalle's own photograph is ordered through Artothek — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistWilhelm Leibl (German, 1844–1900)
Date1878–1882
MuseumHamburger Kunsthalle
AccessionHK-1534
MediumÖl auf Mahagoniholz (oil on mahogany)
Dimensions113cm x 77cm (Bild); 135cm x 98cm (Rahmen)
Sheet sizes8×10 in, 11×14 in, 18×24 in
Provenance of the file
Held byHamburger Kunsthalle · HK-1534 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Wilhelm Leibl - Drei Frauen in der Kirche (1882).jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master2,944 × 4,596 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons on 15 October 2026; held as our print master.

The sheets

8×10 in sheet 8×10 in · image 6.4×10 in · archival margin · 460 dpi
11×14 in sheet 11×14 in · image 9×14 in · archival margin · 328 dpi
18×24 in sheet 18×24 in · image 15.4×24 in · archival margin · 192 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,596 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.