Portrait of a Woman
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
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...