Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele's work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist's visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, Die Muskete.

Claude Cernuschi is Professor of Art History at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA.

1. Introduction: Egon Schiele and Caricature 2. Landscapes and Townscapes 3. Religion 4. Children 5. Sexuality 6. Body "Language" 7. Facial Expressions 8. Hands 9. Fashion and Fashionability 10. Coda