Artist: Johann Heinrich Fuseli Painting: The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments Introduction: 1778-79 Red chalk on sepia wash, 415 x 355 mm Kunsthaus, Z?rich The young Henry Fuseli, in the late 1770s, portrayed himself reduced to despair before the vastness of Rome's remains. Since he had spent eight years studying in the city, his awe was doubtless exaggerated, but it was also a premonition of the powerful emotions that were to be released in his art. Author: FUSELI, John Henry Title: The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments Form: graphics , 1751-1800 , Swiss , other
Artist: Johann Heinrich Fuseli Painting: Brunhilde Observing Gunther Introduction: Whom She Has Tied to the Ceiling 1807 Pencil, pen and ink and wash, 483 x 317 mm City Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham The subject is taken from the Niebelung Saga (X, 648-50). Author: FUSELI, John Henry Title: Brunhilde Observing Gunther, Whom She Has Tied to the Ceiling Form: graphics , 1751-1800 , Swiss , other
Artist: Johann Heinrich Fuseli Painting: Portrait of a Young Woman Introduction: 101 x 127 cm Institue of Arts, Detroit This portrait is painted on the reverse of the Nightmare. The portrait is generally believed to be of the woman Fuseli loved, Anna Landolt, who was a niece of the Zerich physiologist Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801). Lavater and Fuseli were close friends, but Fuseli's suit was rejected by Anna's parents, and it may not be coincidence that the portrait is on the reverse of his painting The Nightmare. Artist: FUSELI, John Henry Title: Portrait of a Young Woman , painting Date: 1751-1800 Swiss : portrait