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Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube

Henry Fuseli  (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London)

Date:
1802
Medium:
Graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper
Dimensions:
12 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (31.2 x 33.6 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994
Accession Number:
1994.375

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  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Dated in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Aug. t 1802" Verso, incribed in pen and brown ink: "Hagen im zum Tod geladen" Top half, in graphite, sketch of a standing woman; left side, in graphite, partial outline of man traced from recto

  • Provenance

    Professor Paul Ganz (Zurich 1872–1952 Oberhofen); Rudolph Ganz (Chicago); Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Levy, New Orleans ; Vendor: Richard L. Feigen & Co.

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gert Schiff, 1973, no. 1392

  • References

    Arnold Federmann Johann Heinrich Füssli: Dichter und Maler 1741-1825. Zurich/Leipzig, 1927, p. 68.

    Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825. Gert Schiff, Oeuvrekataloge Schweizer Künstler, 1, Zurich and Munich, 1973, cat. no. 1392, fig. no. 1392, pp. 588 (1), 447, ill.

    Die Nibelungen: Bilder von Liebe. Edited by Wolfgang Storch, Munich, 1987, p. 137.

    "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 1994-1995" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 2, 53, Fall 1995, p. 40, ill.



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