Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka Jr.)

Egon SchieleLinkedCulture matchlcp-5666385ff0d8

Date: 1916
Medium: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite
Culture: Austria
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 140334

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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. The child seen in this drawing, Anton Peschka Jr., served as a model for several compositions by Egon Schiele.

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Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
Provenance: by 1917-before 1959: Lederer family, Vienna, sold to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich | ?-1959: (Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, OH) | 1959-1964: Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1964-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH