Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons
Henry Fuseli · c. 1816
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, October 23, 1914, lot 235 or 236 to William F. E. Gurley (1870-1943), Chicago [collector records]; given to the Art Institute, Feb. 1944.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Tate Britain, "Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination," Feb. 15-May 1, 2006, p. 98, cat. 51, (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
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