'The Nightmare', c1790. Artist: Henry Fuseli

'The Nightmare', c1790. Artist: Henry Fuseli

1-156-179 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

'The Nightmare', c1790. The feeling of suffocating anxiety experienced in a nightmare is represented by the demon, sitting on the dreamer's chest with implied sexual menace, while the terrifying image of the horse intrudes into the room through parted curtains. This is Fuseli's second work on the theme. Freud is supposed to have had an engraving of the image on the wall of his waiting room. From the collection of the Goethe Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. Henry Fuseli, attributed to: Swiss, British: Artist, painter, author
People Related
  1. Sigmund Freud: Austrian: Neurologist

Medium
  1. Oil

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Times of the Day

Religion & Belief Other

People Other

Society & Culture Sickness & Disease


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 2953x3548
File Size : 30,696kb


Aliases

  1. 003105
  1. 003105
  1. 0460001851
  1. 1-156-179
  1. 1156179
  1. 1851

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