Genoveva’s Murderers Take Pity
c. 1830
Medium
Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, partially laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
23.4 × 30.7 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185934
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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 accuse...