The Nightmare

Henry Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' (1781) is a defining image of dark Romantic imagination: an incubus squats atop a young woman in deep sleep while the spectral head of a night-mare stallion peers through the bed curtains. Fusing eroticism, dream, and death into one disturbing tableau, the picture scandalised and fascinated Georgian London; Freud hung a print of it in his consulting room. Versions are held at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.

Exhibition Venue

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hartford, United States

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