Lying in Wait

The 20 most looked-at works by Henry Wolf

1. 1 William Makepeace Thackeray, 1911 4,4%
2. 2 A Gentlewoman, 1906 3,3%
3. 3 Who Sits at the Little Marble Tables, 1887 2,2%
4. 4 The Walk to Bethlehem, 1897 2,2%
5. 5 The Lovers, 1895 2,2%
6. 6 Lying in Wait, 1885 this painting 2,2%
7. 7 Cynthia Sherwood, 1895 2,2%
8. 8 At Kissingen, 1890 2,2%
9. 9 Spanish Countess, 1907 2,2%
10. 10 Henry Irving at Home, 1881 2,2%
11. 11 A Head, 1913 2,2%
12. 12 Horses at the Watering Trough, 1893 2,2%
13. 13 The Little Rabbit Seller, 1901 2,2%
14. 14 Miss Nelthrop, 1905 1,1%
15. 15 Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury, 1915 1,1%
16. 16 La Riviere a la Tour Lointaine, 1913 1,1%
17. 17 Frederick and His Men at Hochkirch, 1891 1,1%
18. 18 Cooking a Camp Dinner, 1877 1,1%
19. 19 The Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1891 1,1%
20. 20 Miss Frances Cadwalader (Lady Erskine), 1897 1,1%

Together these works take 39,6% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 290 works by this artist, of which 74 were looked at at least once. This painting ranks 6 of them, with 2,2% of that attention.

Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.