Johann Heinrich Fssli, called Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)

A seated nude (recto and verso)

Details

Johann Heinrich Fssli, called Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Fssli, J. H.
Fuseli, H.
A seated nude (recto and verso)
pen and brown ink, minor ink gall damage
8.5/8 x 6.7/8 in. (219 x 173 mm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Bern, Gutekunst & Klipstein, December, 1942, lot 516. Kurt Meissner.
Ian Woodner; Christie's London, 2 July 1991, lot 193.

Exhibited

Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Henry Fuseli, 1983, no. 104.
Zrich, Galerie Kurt Meissner, Hundert Zeichnungen aus 5 Jahrhunderten, 1984, no. 92, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Inspired by the Ignudi of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, this sheet is comparable to a drawing in the Alsdorf Collection at Winnetka, G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Fssli, Zrich, 1973, no. 1173, and another sold at Christie's London, 9 December 1980, lot 273. Dr. Schiff dated these sheets to about 1795, well after the artist left Italy. A drawing copied directly after Michelangelo's Jehosaphat, in the Kunsthaus, Zrich, dates from the Italian period. Another drawing after Michelangelo is at Yale, E. Haverkamp-Begemann and A.-M. S. Logan, European Drawings and Watercolors in the Yale University Art Gallery 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1970, no. 201, pls. 120-1.