Portrait of Emilie Flöge
1902 · Oil on canvas · Wien Museum, Vienna
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About this work
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)
- Year
- 1902
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 178 × 80 cm
- Collection
- Wien Museum, Vienna
- Movement
- Vienna Secession
Emilie Flöge, the Viennese fashion designer who was Klimt's lifelong companion, stands full length in a close-fitting blue dress covered in gold spirals and checks, her head turned to the viewer against a flat, misty ground. Klimt painted it in 1902, and it is the first of his portraits in which the dress becomes a field of pure ornament while the face and hands stay naturalistic, the formula he would perfect with Adele Bloch-Bauer. Flöge ran a fashion salon with her sisters and designed loose reform dresses; the gown here is probably Klimt's invention. The sitter reportedly disliked the picture, and the City of Vienna bought it in 1908. It is in the Wien Museum. The tall, narrow format echoes the Japanese prints Klimt admired.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
The tall, narrow format with its blue and gold dress is made for a slim wall: beside a doorway, in a hallway or at a corridor's end at 16×24. A thin black frame on misty grey or deep teal lets the ornament glow.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Vienna Secession painting
- Era
- 20th century (1902)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- gold
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, anniversary, her, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — natural wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.



















