Sleeping Woman with a Cupid (Hush)
1780–90
Medium
Etching and drypoint; published state
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed within plate line): 9 13/16 × 14 3/4 in. (25 × 37.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
Accession Number
55.565.122
Tags
About the Artist
Henry Fuseli|Robert Pollard
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...