JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741- 1825) - photo 1
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JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741- 1825)

Lot 36
10.06.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 120 000
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Lot 36 | JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741- 1825)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741- 1825)
Martha Hesse as Silence (recto); Study of two figures (verso)
pencil and black and white chalk on buff oatmeal paper
20 x 12 ½ in. (51 x 32 cm.)




Provenance

Henry Reitlinger; Sotheby's, London, 26 May 1954, lot 460 (£450).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1978, lot 74.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 April 1995, lot 51.
with Anthony Mould, London, from whom acquired for the present collection.



Literature

G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Zurich, 1973, I, pp. 154, 509, no. 849, illustrated II, p. 225.
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace, 1995, in Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 4, 1996, p. 118, illustrated and p. 123.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Drawings by Old Masters, August - October 1953, no. 471 (as 'Silence').
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