Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Johann Jakob Bodmer NPG 3027

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Fuseli

The sitter's penetrating gaze in this confident drawing caused it to be originally identified as a self-portrait by the leading Gothic artist Henry Fuseli. Later research has, however, shown that it was a preparatory study for a painting depicting Fuseli's tutor, Johann Bodmer. Fuseli's style was greatly influenced by Michelangelo's anatomical drawings and the works of the Italian mannerists, which he had seen on a visit Rome from 1770 to 1778. However, Fuseli favoured dynamic contrasts which highlight the underlying structure of Bodmer's face. The... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.