Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001107Sketch for "Oath on the Rütli" (recto), Female Figure (verso)
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Possibly William F. E. Gurley (died 1943), Chicago [The picture was discovered, unstretched, among the holdings of the Department of Prints and Drawings in 1976. It is possible that it came to the Art Institute in 1922 or 1943 as part of the Gurley Bequest, a large collection of drawings many of which remained unaccessioned until the 1980s and 1990s]; transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings to the Department of European Painting and accessioned as an anonymous gift, 1980
Exhibition history
Bernisches Historisches Museum, Zeichen der Freiheit: Das Bild der Republik in der Kunst des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, June 1-September 15, 1991, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, November 18-April 1, 2017.
Publications
Frederick N. Bohrer, "Public Virtue and Private Terror: A Two-Sided Oil Sketch by Henry Fuseli," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 53 (1990), pp. 89–106 (ills.). Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 220–26 (ill.). Fred Licht, Simona Tosini Pizzetti, and David H. Weinglass, Füssli pittore di Shakespeare: Pittura e teatro, exh. cat., Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parma, 1997, no. 7 (not exhibited).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741–1825)
- Date
- 1779–81 (recto); 1785–90 (verso)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76 × 67.5 cm (29 15/16 × 26 9/16 in.); Framed: 79.4 × 69.3 cm (31 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Anonymous gift
- Accession no.
- 1980.170
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