Lavinia de Irujo in profile, facing right
Maker
(artist)
1741-1825
1741-1825
Title
Lavinia de Irujo in profile, facing right
Date of Production
(December) 1814
Medium
black chalk on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 19 cm
Width: 19 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1081
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
This is the last in a series of around a dozen portraits that Fuseli drew of Lavinia de Irujo (1794–1866), the daughter of a Spanish diplomat. His earliest sketch of her dates from 1810, when she was just sixteen years of age, and he sixty-nine. Their unusual friendship appears to have breathed new life into the artist’s lifelong infatuation with the intricacies of women’s hairstyles.
Provenance
E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (16 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/10/2022-08/01/2023
Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825, Kunsthaus Zurich, 18/07/1926-05/09/1926
Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825, Kunsthaus Zurich, 18/07/1926-05/09/1926
Literature
Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 1664
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20
David H Solkin, Füssli, Mode, Fetisch, Fantasie, Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023
cat. no. 11
p. 91. p. 106 p. 165 ...More
Solkin, Gottardo, Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, and Fetishism, The Courtauld Gallery, Kunsthaus Zurich, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2023.
cat. no. 11
p.91, 106, 163 ...Less
no. 1664
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20
David H Solkin, Füssli, Mode, Fetisch, Fantasie, Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023
cat. no. 11
p. 91. p. 106 p. 165 ...More
Solkin, Gottardo, Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, and Fetishism, The Courtauld Gallery, Kunsthaus Zurich, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2023.
cat. no. 11
p.91, 106, 163 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto, lower right, black chalk, partly erased: "B[...]k F. Decr. 14". Verso: lower right, graphite, Witt number: "1081".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto, lower right, black chalk, partly erased: "B[...]k F. Decr. 14". Verso: lower right, graphite, Witt number: "1081".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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