Art Institute of Chicago
Sleeping Woman with a Cupid
Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)LinkedCulture matchlcp-51a294594c6f
- Date
- 1780/90
- Medium
- Etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 141447
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this etching by Fuseli, a work suffused with the eroticism the artist cultivated in his work, a hovering cupid with his bow approaches a sleeping woman. In the foreground, two butterflies mate. The word “Hush!” in Greek is inscribed on the column.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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