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FJK 048

Füssli Johann Heinrich (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London)

FJK 048 Füssli Johann Heinrich

Study after the Brazen Serpent by Michelangelo (Rome, Sixtine Chapel)

1771
4 49/64 × 7 61/64 in. (121 × 202 mm)

Medium
Pen, grey ink and grey ink wash on paper

Origin

Minister Dr. V. Burg Collection
Robert Frank Collection
Private Collection, Great Britain (1960)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, June 15, 2000, no. 187
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5810
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

SCHIFF Gert, “Zeichnungen von Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825),” in Kleine Schriften No. 2, Schweizeriches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zürich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, 1959, no. 5, ill.

SCHIFF Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli und Michelangelo, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Annual Report, Zürich, 1964, p. 126.

SCHIFF Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825, Münich: Prestel Verlag, 1973, vol. I, p. 479, no. 669, ill. vol. II p. 146.

Exhibitions

Zürich, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Kleine Schriften No. 2,Zeichnungen von Johann Heinrich Füssli (1749-1825), 1959, no. 5.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du Dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 162, no. 69, color ill. p. 163.

Notes

Fuseli spent eight years in Rome, arriving in May 1770. He soon became a central figure amongst the artistic community there and this period was critical to his development as an artist. His interest in Michelangelo is well documented in his Ode on Art written in 1770 and he produced a number of studies after Michelangelo in the following year (Schiff nos. 666-683). This is the only one of these studies recorded by Schiff still in private hands - the remainder being in Museums in Basel, Stockholm, Zurich, Weimar, Mannheim and the British Museum.

Sotheby’s, The British Sale: Part II, London June 2000 (extract from)

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