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AT-00004341Mother and Her Family in the Country
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Agnew and Sons, London [invoice]. M. Knoedler and Company, New York, by 1973 [Schiff 1973]. Roland Balay, New York [invoice]. Michelle Bertotti, New York [invoice]. Artemis S. A., Luxembourg, by 1977 [Artemis 1977]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1977.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, “From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: British Drawings from the Permanent Collection,” December 20, 1988-April 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: p. 593, II: pl. 1420. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Gemälde und Zeichnungen: Neuerwerbungen, Sommer 1977 (München, 1977), cat. 16 (ill.). S.A. Artemis, Artemis 76-77: Consolidated Report, Annual General Meeting (Luxembourg, 28 October 1977), no. 15 (ill.). Gert Schiff and Paola Viotto, L'opera completa di Füssli (Rizzoli, 1977), p. 106, under no. 264 (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
- 1806/07
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, with watercolor and traces of white gouache, over graphite, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 45.7 × 31.1 cm (18 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Purchase Fund income
- Accession no.
- 1977.310
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