
Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower
Henry Fuseli · 1806
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Oct. 23, 1914, to William F. E. Gurley (1870-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, The Tate Gallery, "Henry Fuseli," Feb. 19-Mar. 31, 1975, p. 103 (ill.), cat. 121; traveled to Hamburg, Dec. 14 1974-Jan. 15, 1975, pp. 184-85, cat. 141 (ill.), and Paris, Petit Palais, Apr. 21-July 20, 1975, n.p., cat. 62 (ill.).
- Los Angeles County Musem of Art, "Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings," July 22-Sept. 19, 1993; also Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994; and Minneapolis Institute of Art,Feb. 6-Apr. 3, 1994.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: p. 639, II: pl. 1799a.
- Gert Schiff and Paola Viotto, L'opera completa di Füssli (Rizzoli, 1977), pp. 102-03, under no. 224 (ill.).
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