Max Liebermann

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Erisava Staff Aug 12

The Ropewalk in Edam by Max Liebermann, 1904

The Ropewalk in Edam

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

A ropewalk is just a very long straight lane — apparently the rope has to be stretched out full length before it can be twisted, so the workshop ends up being the length of the rope. He spent summers over in Holland for years, painting the same small trades again and again.

Erisava: It's just men at work. I keep waiting for the part that got it into a museum.