Red-brown etching of a reclining woman resting her head on her hand beside a plinth, with a flying cupid above at left.

Sleeping Woman with a Cupid

A reclining woman rests on a stone ledge beside an inscribed plinth, her head propped on one hand. A winged cupid flies at upper left above hatched shadows, with a palm frond and flowers below; red-brown lines on pale paper suggest an etching.

Artist: Henry Fuseli
Date: 1780/90
Medium: Etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1239 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1790).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

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