Axial Commons Image Treasury
Oil painting in a gilded frame: a pale nude woman floats diagonally through a dark, smoky space while draped figures lean into a glowing haze on the left.

Psyche walks past the Fates undeterred

A pale nude female figure drifts diagonally across a dark, smoky background, her arm raised and drapery streaming behind her. To the left, two or three shrouded, draped figures lean into a glowing haze, rendered in oil with strong chiaroscuro and set in a heavy gilded frame.

Artist
Henry Fuseli
Date
1780
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
2736 × 3648 px
Download full size
Public domain · Licensed CC BY 2.0 de by Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata; credit required.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier C · as stated by the source: CC BY 2.0 de

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Henry Fuseli, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 de)

Español: Psique pasa junto a las Parcas sin inmutarse

Una figura femenina desnuda y pálida se desplaza en diagonal por un fondo oscuro y brumoso, con el brazo levantado y los ropajes ondeando detrás de ella. A la izquierda, dos o tres figuras cubiertas con telas se inclinan hacia un resplandor difuso, pintado al óleo con fuerte claroscuro y enmarcado en un pesado marco dorado.

Português: Psique passa pelas Parcas sem se deixar abalar

Uma figura feminina nua e pálida desliza em diagonal por um fundo escuro e enevoado, com o braço erguido e os tecidos esvoaçando atrás dela. À esquerda, duas ou três figuras envoltas em panos inclinam-se para um brilho difuso, pintado a óleo com forte claro-escuro e emoldurado por uma pesada moldura dourada.

More from Greek and Roman Myths

Watercolour of a bearded alchemist in red and blue robes holding a glass vessel, with a dark inscribed scroll above and a landscape behind him.An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek theWoodcut of a muscular Hercules raising a club among nude and draped figures in a columned hall, with an arch opening onto a distant landscape.Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the MusesBrown monochrome engraving of a muscular bearded nude man holding a club, standing on a coiled serpent, within an ornate decorative border.Hercules. Engraving by G. Ghisi after G.B. Bertano.Engraving in an oval frame: muscular Hercules lifts a globe overhead, flanked by a seated man with a sphere at left and a bearded man with a book at right.Hercules holds up the world between two philosophers representing astronomy and mathematicColour woodcut of a woman in a blue patterned kimono reclining beside a lacquered box and a glowing brazier, with chopsticks at lower left.A woman placing glowing charcoal in a sand-filled box to provide warmth. Colour woodcut byPainted panel of a youth in white leaning over three women in red-pink robes, with Latin text in gray capitals across the top and a gilded frame.Perseus and the Graiae