A woman wearing a blue skirt and red head covering bends over to attend to a cabbage field, which dominates the foreground in rows of green and purple. A single tree stands on the left, a vague impression of bushes or a tree-line in the background.Mrs. Clara Wolf, New York, in memory of Simon Wolf 1975, gift also of Hugh and Elsa Hirsh.The field was probably located near the artist's summer house in Wannsee outside Berlin, where he completed most of his works after 1922.Max Liebermann trained in Weimar before continuing to study in Amsterdam and Paris, where he was influenced by Courbet, Millet, and the Barbizon School. Liebermann returned to Germany in 1878 and continued painting in the Impressionist style, founding the movement in his nat...