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AT-00011096Hermine Gallia
by Gustav Klimt
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
lower left, in graphite: 9 ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: A7558 [underlined] ; lower left, in graphite: H3
Provenance
?-?: (private dealer, Munich, sold to Mr. Henry H. Hawley) ?-1972: Mr. Henry H. Hawley [1934-2019], Chagrin Falls, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1972-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). The Vocabulary of Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975). German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980). Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984). Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)
- Date
- c. 1904
- Medium
- black chalk with graphite on light brown laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 45.6 x 31.2 cm (17 15/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry H. Hawley
- Accession no.
- 1972.312
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