Genoveva’s Murderers Take Pity

Prints and Drawings

c. 1830

Joseph Ritter von Führich
Bohemian, 1800–1876

Joseph Ritter von Führich was a fresco painter and draughtsman active in Rome with the Nazarene Brotherhood, who preferred a style of drawing that employed expressive outline and clarity of detail reminiscent of Albrecht Dürer and Raphael. Führich designed illustrations for several religious themed books, including an edition of Ludwig Tieck’s play The Life and Death of Saint Genoveva (1799/1800), which was based on a medieval legend of innocence betrayed. In the play, Genoveva is wrongly accused of being unfaithful by her husband, a character likely based on the 13th-century Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria. Robert Schumann’s only opera was based on Tieck’s play and was first performed in Leipzig in 1850.

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Artist: Josef von Führich
Title: Genoveva’s Murderers Take Pity
Place: Bohemia (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1825–1835
Medium: Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, partially laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "v. Führich / Wörndle 200 / 9 “Genovefas Mörder haben Mittleid” / 23,8 : 31 cm"; upper right, in graphite: "7020 / 35"
Dimensions: 23.4 × 30.7 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.942
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Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 82, cat. 53 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 82, cat. 53 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

H. Grunert [stamp (not in Lugt) verso, lower left on mount, in red ink]; sold Venator, Cologne, 1990, to C. G. Boerner; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., May 22, 2001; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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