03 — ARTWORK
Portrait of a Child
- MEDIUM
- Gouache, watercolour, and graphite, 499 x 322 mm (sheet)
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 890 × 1400 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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Egon Schiele depicted a small child, Anton Peschka, Jr., 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. He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918 at age 28, leaving a vast number of drawings.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Portrait of a Child by SCHIELE, Egon},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schiele-egon-rcab8dbff221d9b/portrait-of-a-child-rbf86a8e66fb846},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
