Johann Heinrich Füssli, Henry Fuseli, R.A. (1741-1825)

细节

Johann Heinrich Füssli, Henry Fuseli, R.A. (1741-1825)

A Nude looking upwards resting on a Globe, after Michelangelo's Il Sogno (recto and verso); on the verso there is also a drawing of a face in ink, covered by the shading of the plinth, and also a pencil drawing of a crouching old woman facing right in the lower right-hand corner

pencil, pen and brown ink, some ink gall bosses, fragmentary watermark JW
8½ x 7 3/8in. (218 x 188mm.)

拍品专文

This is a free copy of 'Il Sogno' or 'Dream of Human Life', engraved by Béatrizet after Michelangelo. There is a variant of the main figure on the back and another version, without the smaller figure, inscribed 'Derby. 14 Sept. 99' (S. 1175). Fuseli later used the main motif in the pen and wash drawing of Dalila visiting Samson in Prison in Gaza, an illustration to Milton's Samson Agonistes, 710 ff, dated by Schiff to c. 1800-5 (S. 1414)