HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (ZÜRICH 1741-1825 LONDON)
Lot 80

HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (ZÜRICH 1741-1825 LONDON)

A nude male figure, seated on a step

Closed24 March 2022

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GBP 12,600

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HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (ZÜRICH 1741-1825 LONDON)
A nude male figure, seated on a step
with number '108' (centre left)
pencil on buff paper
7 5⁄8 x 7 5⁄8 in. (19.3 x 19.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 November 1980, lot 7.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 June 2007, lot 188.

Specialist note

This drawing of a contemplative figure appears to have been part of an album to which both Fuseli and his friend James Northcote (1746-1831) contributed, while both were in Italy in 1777. See G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 1973 , I, p. 84 , and II, p. 602 .