Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera (Hesiod, Theogony)
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1810–15
Medium
Soft-ground etching; unfinished
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (31.1 × 29.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.517.4
Tags
ChildrenWomen
About the Artist
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zürich, was a Swiss-British painter whose visionary works exploring dreams, nightmares, and psychological terror made him one of the most original figures of the Romantic movement. His art bridged Neoclassical discipline with Romantic emotionalism, creating images of supernatural intensity that would influence artists from William Blake to t...