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AT-00006235An Erotic Fantasy
by Henry Fuseli
Provenance
Sold by unnamed librarian, France, to an art dealer, Paris (as anonymous); sold to Galerie Hubert Duchemin, Paris, and Miriam Di Penta Fine Art, Rome, Feb. 2022; sold by Miriam Di Penta Fine Art, Rome, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
Publications
David Solkin, Füssli. Mode-Fetisch-Fantasie, exh. cat (Zurich: Künsthaus Zurich, 2023), p. 117, cat. 25, fig. 91 (not exhibited).
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
- 1790/92
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 15 × 9.1 cm (5 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Switzerland
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Endowment, Print and Drawing, and Mary S. Adams Endowment funds
- Accession no.
- 2023.2841
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