Sleeping Woman with a Cupid
Henry Fuseli
1780/90
Medium
Etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.5 × 34.5 cm (8 7/8 × 13 5/8 in.); Plate: 27.8 × 38 cm (11 × 15 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 43.3 cm (12 11/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
141447
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...