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Let your eye climb the pyramid of color from the dark blue at the bottom to the white face at the top, and notice where the brushwork turns rough and quick.
A baby’s small face looks out from the top of a great heap of patterned quilts, on a canvas that is almost square. Klimt worked on it in 1917 and 1918; he died on 6 February 1918. In 1919 it was sold to Otto and Eugenia Primavesi in Vienna; Primavesi is also the name of the girl in his large portrait in this room.
oil on canvas · overall: 110.9 x 110.4 cm · National Gallery of Art · Vienna Secession
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Baby (Cradle)
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt Austrian, 1862 - 1918
- Date
- 1917/1918
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 110.9 x 110.4 cm (43 11/16 x 43 7/16 in.) framed: 116.21 x 115.89 x 6.67 cm (45 3/4 x 45 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Otto and Franziska Kallir with the help of the Carol and Edwin Gaines Fullinwider Fund
- 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.