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AT-00002156Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Oct. 23, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1870-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Exhibition history
London, The Tate Gallery, "Henry Fuseli," Feb. 19-Mar. 31, 1975, p. 103 (ill.), cat. 121; traveled to Hamburg, Dec. 14 1974-Jan. 15, 1975, pp. 184-85, cat. 141 (ill.), and Paris, Petit Palais, Apr. 21-July 20, 1975, n.p., cat. 62 (ill.). Los Angeles County Musem of Art, "Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings," July 22-Sept. 19, 1993; also Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994; and Minneapolis Institute of Art,Feb. 6-Apr. 3, 1994. Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Publications
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: p. 639, II: pl. 1799a. Gert Schiff and Paola Viotto, L'opera completa di Füssli (Rizzoli, 1977), pp. 102-03, under no. 224 (ill.).
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
- 1806
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and red wash, over traces of graphite, on grayish-ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 63.9 × 52.2 cm (25 3/16 × 20 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.5682
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