About This Artwork
Henry Fuseli
English, born Switzerland, 1741-1825
Portrait of a Woman (Marta Hess)1781
Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk and touches of red-orange pastel, on grayish-tan laid paper
442 x 325 mm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1971.310
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 118-119, cat. 52 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, March 10-May 16, 1986.
Publication History
Gert Schiff, Fuseli (Zurich, 1973), no. 856 (ill.).
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.