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Look at the fine crossing scratches that fill the background, then at the two raised hands with spread fingers set against the turned head.
Arthur Roessler was an art critic and Schiele’s patron: MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 guide says Schiele met most of his buyers through him, and in 1911 Roessler published an illustrated essay on the young artist. In 1914 Schiele scratched this portrait straight into a metal plate, the printing method called drypoint. The Leopold Museum in Vienna holds another impression signed by both artist and sitter.
drypoint on wove paper · plate: 24 × 31.6 cm · National Gallery of Art · Expressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Portrait of Arthur Roessler
- Artist
- Egon Schiele Austrian, 1890 - 1918
- Date
- 1914
- Medium
- drypoint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 24 × 31.6 cm (9 7/16 × 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 31.8 × 45.2 cm (12 1/2 × 17 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.