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Henry Fuseli

Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven, late 1790s

Not on View

Medium

graphite, black chalk, and brown and gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 42.2 × 27.7 cm (16 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2015.10.1.a

Artists / Makers

Henry Fuseli (artist) Swiss, 1741 - 1825

Image Use

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Inscription

in graphite, lower center of sheet: P. C.

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, New York, 29 January 2015, no. 91); (via Lowell Libson, London); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.

Exhibition History

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2016: Sell, Stacey. "Henry Fuseli, Satan Defying the Poowers of Heaven." __National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 54 (Spring 2016): 24, repro.

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