Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman by Wiener Werkstätte|Egon Schiele

Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (14 x 8.9 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library

Accession Number

WW.289

Tags

PortraitsWomen

Art Historical Context

### Portrait of a Woman, 1910 This intimate color lithograph, *Portrait of a Woman*, the bold vision of Egon Schiele in collaboration with the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna's innovative design collective. Created in 1910, when Schiele was just , the print measures a petite 5½ x 3½ inches—perfect for a postcard or personal keepsake. Produced using lithography, a technique where greasy crayon drawings on stone are inked and transferred to paper, it exemplifies early 20th-century efforts to blend fine art with accessible reproduction. Schiele, a rising star of Austrian Expressionism, drew influence...

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