1898
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Study for the figure of Hygieia is a 1898 by Gustav Klimt, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a woman standing sideways, her body turned slightly away. She wears a long, flowing dress with soft folds, and her hair is pulled back. The lines are loose and quick, almost like a dance of pencil strokes. The artist focused on the shape of the fabric, letting it wrap around her body in loose, overlapping curves. The drawing feels alive, as if the figure might move if you looked away for a second. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with layers of lines.
A preparatory drawing by Gustav Klimt from 1898 depicts a female figure, later used as the model for Hygieia in his allegorical painting *Medicine* created for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall.
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement.
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