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Genoveva’s Murderers Take Pity
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "v. Führich / Wörndle 200 / 9 “Genovefas Mörder haben Mittleid” / 23,8 : 31 cm"; upper right, in graphite: "7020 / 35"
Exhibition history
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. 82, cat. 53 (ill.). 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, no cat.
Publications
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. 82, cat. 53 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joseph Ritter von Führich / Bohemian, 1800–1876
- Date
- c. 1830
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, partially laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.4 × 30.7 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Bohemia
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.942
Provenance
H. Grunert [stamp (not in Lugt) verso, lower left on mount, in red ink]; sold Venator, Cologne, 1990, to C. G. Boerner; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., May 22, 2001; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
More by Joseph Ritter von Führich in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005914
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