The Family
1918 · Oil on canvas · Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
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About this work
- Artist
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
- Year
- 1918
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 152.5 × 162.5 cm
- Collection
- Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
- Movement
- Expressionism
A naked man crouches on a bed behind a naked woman, his yellowed body angular and his eyes fixed on us, while a small child wrapped in a blanket peers out between the woman's knees; all three emerge from a near-black room. Schiele began it in 1918 as Crouching Couple, with himself as the man, and later painted the child, modelled on his nephew Toni, over a bouquet of flowers. It hung at the 49th Vienna Secession exhibition that year. Edith Schiele died of Spanish flu that October, six months pregnant, and Schiele died three days later. The Belvedere acquired the painting in 1948.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Dark browns with bronze and greenish flesh tones make a heavy, serious picture for a study, library or hallway with good light. Pair it with Munch's Madonna at 24×36 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1918)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
