Sleeping Woman with a Cupid
Henry Fuseli
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.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
inkprintlaid paperprints and drawingetchingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
