
Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess)
Henry Fuseli · 1781
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henry Scipio Reitlinger (died 1950), London, before 1973 [Lugt supp. 2274a]. Private collection, Switzerland [invoice]. Mrs. Jacob Kaplan, New York [invoice]. K. J. Hewett, London, by 1973 [Schiff 1973]. Sven Gahlin (or Ganlin). Sold by Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1971.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 118-119, cat. 52 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, Mar. 10-May 16, 1986.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: British Drawings from the Permanent Collection," Dec. 20, 1988-Apr. 16, 1989, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: pp. 154 and 509, II: pl. 856.
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