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AT-00005789Triumph of Death: Three Skeletons Invading a Bacchanal Orchestrated by a Magician or an Evil Demon
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Right half of drawing, sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 25, 1970, lot 287, as A Nightmare Scene, to Paul Grinke; joined with left half of drawing, owned by Stephen Somerville, London; conjoined sheet, sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., July 6, 1972; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
London, P. & D. Colnaghi, "Exhibition of English Prints and Drawings," May 17–June 17, 1972, pl. XXVII, cat. 51. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Neoclassical and Romantic: Works on Paper," 1992. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 74, cat. 45 (ill.). 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. 629, II: pl. 1729. Jane Davidson Reid, The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300–1990 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, p. 262. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 74, cat. 45 (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
- 1770–71
- Medium
- Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper (left sheet); graphite, pen and black ink, and brush and reddish-gray wash, on ivory laid paper (right sheet), joined and laid down on ivory Japanese paper, edge mounted on cream card
- Dimensions
- Both sides: 35.7 × 57.2 cm (14 1/16 × 22 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 42 × 36.9 cm (16 9/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.79
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