Detail View: The AMICA Library: Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka, Jr.)
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1964.285
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Schiele, Egon
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Creator Nationality:
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European; Central European; Austrian
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1890 - 1918
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Tulln, Austria
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Creator Death Place:
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Vienna
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Egon Schiele
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Title:
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Portrait of a Child (Anton Peschka, Jr.)
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1916
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Creation Start Date:
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1916
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Creation End Date:
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1916
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Materials and Techniques:
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Gouache, watercolor, and graphite
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Classification Term:
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Drawing
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 49.9cm x 32.2cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1964.285
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Credit Line:
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Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
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Inscriptions:
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signed, lower right, in graphite: egon / schiele 1916 [enclosed in a box]; verso, lower right, in graphite: Serena Lederer
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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Lederer family, Vienna (inscription on verso; Lanyi 1917); purchased from Lederer family by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (Kallir 1990; letter from Jane Kallir, cma files). Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland.
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Context:
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Although he died at the age of 28, Schiele created a vast body of work, including hundreds of drawings primarily devoted to the expressive capacity of the human form. The baby shown on this sheet is the son of Shiele's friend and fellow artist Anton Peschka (1885-1940). Schiele made numerous drawings of Peschka's son, the earliest in 1915, which is when he probably began this one. He seems to have first dated the drawing to 1915, but changed the '5' to a '6' after he completed the work in 1916.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1964.285.tif
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