Women Plucking Geese is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1872 by German painter Max Liebermann.
[4] The current canvas was created in Weimar, at the time when Liebermann was studying at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School, since 1868.
[5] The painting depicts a group of older women who are seated in a dark room, plucking geese.
[6] The painting and his other early works depicting rural motifs were initially not well received by the critics.
[7] Nevertheless, the German railway millionaire Bethel Henry Strousberg bought it for his art collection.