# Hermine Gallia

- By: Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)
- Date: c. 1904
- Medium: black chalk with graphite on light brown laid paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 45.6 x 31.2 cm (17 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Culture: Austria
- Credit line: Gift of Henry H. Hawley
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.312)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.312/1972.312_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Gustav Klimt created this drawing in preparation for a painted portrait, now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. Both depict Hermine Gallia, née Hamburger, who belonged to a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna. Through vanguard circles in the city, she met the artist and commissioned a canvas of her own likeness. This sheet may have been drawn from life, given its loose and sketchlike facture, seemingly meant to quickly record Gallia's form on the elaborate white dress in which she posed.