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AT-00004903The Discovery (recto), Two Sketches of Standing Male Figures (verso)
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Probably sold by the artist's estate to Baroness Susan North (died 1837; née Coutts and later Countess of Guildford), Petersham Castle, England; by descent to her daughter, Susan, 10th Baroness North (1797-1884) [stamp (Lugt 1947), verso, center, in black; Tomory 1972.]; probably sold, Sotheby's, London, July 14-15, 1885, Baroness North sale [Lugt 1947]. Arthur Crossland, Bradford, Yorkshire; sold, Christie's, London, Mar. 9, 1956, Crossland sale, lot 4. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to the Art Institute, April 1956.
Exhibition history
London, The Tate Gallery, "Henry Fuseli," Feb. 19-Mar. 31, 1975, pp. 116-17 (ill.), cat. 148; traveled to Hamburg, Dec. 14 1974-Jan. 15, 1975, pp. 60, 106, cat. 7 (Ill.), and Paris, Petit Palais, Apr. 21-July 20, 1975, n.p., cat. 155 (ill.). 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. 70-71, 87, 329, and 432, II: pl. 336. Gert Schiff and Paola Viotto, L'opera completa di Füssli (Rizzoli, 1977), p. 111, no. D.8 (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
- 1767/69
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over graphite with traces of opaque brown paint (recto), graphite (verso), on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 52.9 × 65.8 cm (20 7/8 × 25 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Frank B. Hubachek
- Accession no.
- 1956.33
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