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Johann Heinrich Fuseli, artist
Swiss, 1741 - 1825
Recto: Bereaved Mother Mourning After the Massacre of the Innocents ~Verso: An Assassin Fleeing, 1771 - 1774
r: Pen and gray-black ink and gray and brown washes with scraping and graphite on laid paper v: Pen and gray-black ink and gray and brown washes
44.7 x 64.1 cm (sheet)
Museum Purchase, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund 1994.9a-b
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Born JOHANN HEINRICH F‹SSLI. Painter. Works are among the most exotic, original, and sensual pieces of his time. ~~Was raised in an intellectual and artistic environment and initially studied theology. Forced to leave Z¸rich due to political entanglements, he went first to Berlin, settling in London in 1764. Encouraged to become a painter by Sir Joshua Reynolds, he left England in 1768 to study in Italy until 1778. In Rome he studied the works of Michelangelo and classical art, his major stylistic influences. Subject matter was mostly literary. Famous for his paintings and drawings of nude figures caught in strained and violent poses suggestive of intense emotion. Had a gift for inventing macabre fantasies, such as that in "The Nightmare" (1781). Had a noticeable influence on the style of his younger contemporary, William Blake. ~~
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