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Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka Jr.)
by Egon Schiele
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in graphite: egon / schiele 1916 [enclosed in a box]; verso, lower right, in graphite: Serena Lederer
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
Exhibition history
The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018). Egon Schiele: Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff. Neue Galerie, New York, NY (organizer) (February 12-May 25, 2026) https://www.neuegalerie.org/exhibitions/schiele-and-graff.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918)
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- Gouache, watercolor, and graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Accession no.
- 1964.285
More by Egon Schiele in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011039
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