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Although Henry Fuseli spent most of his career in England, he was born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zurich, Switzerland. This is a preliminary study for the artist’s first important commission, The Oath on the Rütli, in Zurich’s city hall. Both the study and the final painting depict the oath sworn on the Rütli meadow in 1291 by representatives of three Swiss cantons (territories) against the ambitions of their Habsburg overlords. This sketch, with its limited palette and loose, expressive brushstrokes, shows the artist thinking through questions of tone and mood.
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| Medium | oil paint (paint) |
| Dimensions | 67 × 76 Cm |
| Tags | sketchmennaturenudessoldiersstudyswordswoman |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
Timeline
Chain of custody, exhibitions, and verification milestones synced from the provenance service.
Sat
07
Feb
exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, November 18-April 1, 2017.
Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, November 18-April 1, 2017.
Sat
07
Feb
note
Possibly William F....
Possibly William F. E. Gurley (died 1943), Chicago [The picture was discovered, unstretched, among the holdings of the Department of Prints and Drawings in 1976. It is possible that it came to the Art Institute in 1922 or 1943 as part of the Gurley Bequest, a large collection of drawings many of which remained unaccessioned until the 1980s and 1990s]
Fri
07
Feb
note
Fred Licht, Simona Tosini Pizzetti, and David H. Weinglass, Füssli pittore di Shakespeare: Pittura e teatro, exh. cat., Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parma, 1997, no. 7
Fred Licht, Simona Tosini Pizzetti, and David H. Weinglass, Füssli pittore di Shakespeare: Pittura e teatro, exh. cat., Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parma, 1997, no. 7 (not exhibited).
Wed
07
Feb
note
Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago
Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 220–26 (ill.).
Thu
07
Feb
exhibition
Bernisches Historisches Museum, Zeichen der Freiheit: Das Bild der Republik in der Kunst des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, June 1-September 15, 1991, no. 4.
Bernisches Historisches Museum, Zeichen der Freiheit: Das Bild der Republik in der Kunst des 16. bis 20. Jahrhunderts, June 1-September 15, 1991, no. 4.
Wed
07
Feb
note
Frederick N. Bohrer, "Public Virtue and Private Terror: A Two-Sided Oil Sketch by Henry Fuseli," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 53
Frederick N. Bohrer, "Public Virtue and Private Terror: A Two-Sided Oil Sketch by Henry Fuseli," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 53 (1990), pp. 89–106 (ills.).
Thu
07
Feb
note
transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings to the Department of European Painting and accessioned as an anonymous gift, 1980
transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings to the Department of European Painting and accessioned as an anonymous gift, 1980
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