Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002514Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess)
by Henry Fuseli
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto lower left, in graphite: “Sept. 10, 81”
Provenance
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (died 1950), London, before 1973 [Lugt supp. 2274a]. Private collection, Switzerland [invoice]. Mrs. Jacob Kaplan, New York [invoice]. K. J. Hewett, London, by 1973 [Schiff 1973]. Sven Gahlin (or Ganlin). Sold by Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1971.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 118-119, cat. 52 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, Mar. 10-May 16, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: British Drawings from the Permanent Collection," Dec. 20, 1988-Apr. 16, 1989, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Publications
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: pp. 154 and 509, II: pl. 856.
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
- 1781
- Medium
- Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk and touches of red-orange pastel, on grayish-tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 44.2 × 32.5 cm (17 7/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1971.310
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