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Compare the bare, simple outline of the jacket with the closely drawn eyes and the long fingers at the bottom of the sheet.
Schiele drew this boy in pencil in 1910, a year after he left the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. MoMA’s 1986 Vienna 1900 guide counts his portraits of 1909 to 1911 among the first Expressionist works in Vienna, with outsized hands and empty space around the sitter. Here the hands are drawn with more care than anything except the eyes.
Graphite on paper · 17 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (45.1 x 31.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Expressionism
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- Museum title
- Portrait of Herbert Rainer
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (Austrian, Tulln 1890–1918 Vienna)
- Date
- 1910
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 17 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (45.1 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.