Johann Heinrich Fssli (1741-1825)

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Details

Johann Heinrich Fssli (1741-1825)
The Conversion of Saint Paul
signed, inscribed and dated
'Dec. Fuzely Rome 1778' and inscribed 'AMASIPPY MARTYRI'OI RISTOS
pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash heightened with white chalk
the upper corners made up
188 x 303 mm.

Literature

G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Fssli, 1741-1825', Zurich, 1973, I, no. 1737.

Lot Essay

A return to Fssli's composition of 1770, now in the British Museum, G. Schiff, op. cit., no. 374. The present drawing differs in the definition of the clouds and the shaping of the upper edge. As Gert Schiff notes, the figure of Paul is based on Johan Tobias Sergel's terracotta Faun of 1769, in Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, G. Schiff, op. cit., p. 439.

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