{"id":1743,"title":"Standing Girl","medium":"Conté crayon and tempera wash over black chalk on brown wrapping paper","classification":"Drawings","dimension":"52 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (133 x 52.4 cm) (image)\r\n61 3/8 x 28 5/8 x 3/4 in. (155.89 x 72.71 x 1.91 cm) (outer frame; black)","object_name":"Drawing","continent":"Europe","country":"Austria","nationality":"Austrian","dated":"c. 1910","room":"Not on View","list":"prints-and-drawings-collection-highlights, Euro-highlights-prints-drawings","role":"Artist","signed":"LL: S (partial)","text":"Standing Girl is the largest known drawing from Egon Schiele’s short but prolific career. His life played out against the backdrop of Sigmund Freud’s studies of the mind and intense debates about the treatment of human sexuality in the arts. Characteristic of early twentieth-century Viennese art, this provocative sheet—actually brown wrapping paper—epitomizes the era’s decorative ornamentation and decadent eroticism. Schiele’s contours, at once graceful and awkward, create a momentary confusion between bodily mass and negative space, laying open the mysterious relationship between inward and outward realities. Setting the figure’s clawlike hands against her virginal, downcast eyes, Schiele struck a balance between corruption and purity.","provenance":"Joseph Urban, New York (before d. 1932; sold to Kallir); [Dr. Otto Kallir, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, until 1969; partial gift ($15, 000), partial sale ($15, 000) to Mia, 1969].","creditline":"The John R. Van Derlip Fund and gift from Dr. Otto Kallir","accession_number":"69.7","artist":"Egon Schiele","life_date":"Austrian, 1890–1918","department":"European Art","rights_type":"Public Domain","image_width":6824,"image_height":17025,"recent":0,"see_also":[],"sort_number":"69     7","image":"valid","public_access":1,"curator_approved":1,"highlights":0,"Cache_Location":"001000\\700\\40\\1743","Primary_RenditionNumber":"mia_6006155.jpg","Rights_Image_Display":"Full","TitleAlt":"Gerti Schiele in a Plaid Garment","list:prints-and-drawings-collection-highlights":true,"list:euro-highlights-prints-drawings":true,"mtime":"2026-03-13T09:00:09.514Z"}