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AT-00005767The Spirit of Knowledge
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Private collection, England, by 1930 [a letter from Lowell Libson of Spink-Leger Pictures dated Sept. 15, 1998 in curatorial file]. Trevor Roberts, England, to 1948 [Libson letter]; Ian Phillips, England, from 1948-1998 [London 1998 exh. cat.]; Leger Galleries, London; given to the Art Institute, 1998.
Exhibition history
London, Spink-Leger Pictures, "Master Drawings," 1998, cat. 23. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection," June 11-September 7, 1999, cat. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection", March 15 - June 15, 2014. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
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
- 1798
- Medium
- Black chalk and brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 18.2 × 22.3 cm (7 3/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk and wash
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Given in honor of Dorothy Braude Edinburg by Lowell Libson and the Directors of Spink-Leger
- Accession no.
- 1998.491
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