Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka Jr.)
Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)
1916
- Medium
- Gouache, watercolor, and graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Austria
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Egon Schiele depicted a small child, the son of a friend, in this drawing devoid of setting. The child teeters at an awkward angle, seemingly unsupported but for a multipatterned fabric wrap that occupies the artist’s primary interest. This contorted pose is typical of Schiele’s many drawings of people in which he explored the expressive capacity of the human form, often using the body to indicate their psychic state (see another drawing by Schiele nearby). He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918 at age 28, leaving a vast number of drawings.
