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Sleeping Woman with a Cupid

A work made of etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper.

Date:

1780/90

Artist:

Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)
published by Robert Pollard (British, c. 1755-1838)

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Henry Fuseli

Title

Sleeping Woman with a Cupid

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1780–1790

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.723

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