Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile
ca. 1778–79
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 11 7/16 x 7 1/16 in. (29 x 18 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mary Oenslager Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2006
Accession Number
2006.501
Tags
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...