Description
Egon Schiele – Wife of the artist Edith Schiele
Egon Schiele – Portrait of Edith, the Artist’s Wife, 1915
This hand-painted Egon Schiele painting, Portrait of Edith, the Artist’s Wife, is an oil reproduction of the portrait Schiele painted in 1915. The original is held by the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands.
Who is in the picture
The sitter is Edith Harms, Schiele’s wife, whom he married in 1915, shortly before painting this portrait. She wears a colourful dress she made herself from the striped curtains of Schiele’s studio; her red hair is neatly styled and her pale face shows a bashful reserve.
A new image after the marriage
The museum reads the work as a departure from Schiele’s characteristic explicit eroticism: he paints his young wife with propriety and modesty, upright and vulnerable, in the year of their 1915 marriage.
The original’s medium and format
The museum record lists the original as oil on canvas, measuring 180.2 × 110.1 cm — a tall, upright canvas.
Where it hangs, and how it got there
The painting is now at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (inv. 0331896), which acquired it in 1927 during an exhibition of Austrian Expressionism. It is the only painting by Egon Schiele in the Netherlands and is regarded as a highlight of the collection.
Our hand-painted oil reproduction
Our reproduction is hand-painted in oil on canvas and painted in the size you choose.
