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Showing posts with label John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli. Show all posts
9/9/15
9/2/15
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, The Erinyes Drive Alcmaeon from the Corpse of his Mother, Eriphyle, Whom He Has Killed
Date: 1821
Technique: Oil on canvas, 122 x 157 cm
7/19/15
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Macbeth Consulting The Vision Of The Armed Head
Technique: Unknown
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo
Technique: Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 111.7 cm
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, The Vision of the Deluge
Technique: Oil on canvas, 254 x 210 cm
Circle of Johann Heinrich Füssli, Nick Bottom as a donkey from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare, surrounded by Titania and fairies
Technique: Oil on canvas, 143 x 123 cm
7/10/14
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Ariadne Watching the Struggle of Theseus with the Minotaur
Date: 1815-20
Technique: Brown wash, oil, white gouache, white chalk, gum and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper, 616 x 502 mm
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Sherasmin and Huon Flee from Oberon (Cerasimus und Huon fliehen vor dem Elfenkönig Oberon)
Date: 1804-05
Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Macbeth and the Witches
Technique: Unknown
9/18/12
7/21/11
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, The Passing of the Angel of Death
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Date: Unknown
Technique: Wash (brush and wash heightened with white on heavy rag paper), 20 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.
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6/28/11
3/2/11
John Henry Fuseli, Wolfram Introducing Bertrand of Navarre to the Place where he had Confined his Wife with the Skeleton of her Lover
Tate Gallery, London
Date: c. 1812-1820
Technique: Oil on canvas, 970 x 700 mm
The lord of a castle shows an unseen visitor his faithless wife, secreted in a sepulchral chamber, embracing the headless, skeletal remains of her lover. A young admirer recalled Fuseli telling the story: ‘At breakfast Fuseli mentioned a picture which he had just sketched from an ancient German Ballad and promised at night to relate the Story – for he said it must be at night – “I can only tell it at night”’.
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12/21/10
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Titania Awakening (Titanias Erwachen)
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur
Date: 1785-1790
Technique: Oil on canvas, 2220 x 2800 mm
Titania, the queen of the fairies, wakes and tells Oberon of her dream in which she was in love with an ass. Oberon explains that she has been enchanted. A group of good fairies appear on the left. To the right, Bottom sleeps surrounded by evil spirits, including a wicked imp riding a 'nightmare'. This was the second painting of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-6) commissioned from Fuseli by John Boydell.
QUEEN. My Oberon! what visions have I seen!
Methought, I was enamour’d of an ass.
OBERON. There lies your love.
QUEEN. How came these things to pass?
O, how mine eyes do loath his visage now!
OBERON. Silence, a while. – Robin, take off this
head. – Titania, music call; and strike more dead
Than common sleep, of all these five the sense.
William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-6), Act IV, Scene 1
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12/20/10
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Titania and Bottom (Die Elfenkönigin Titania streichelt den eselsköpfigen Zettel)
Tate Gallery, London
Date: c. 1790
Technique: Oil on canvas, 2172 x 2756 mm
Titania, the queen of the fairies, has been made by her jealous husband Oberon to fall in love with Bottom, whose head has been magically transformed into that of an ass. Bottom orders her fairies to serve his whims. Peaseblossom scratches his head, Mustardseed rubs his nose, Cobweb, standing on Bottom's outstretched hand, is ordered to kill a bumblebee. The painting was commissioned by John Boydell for his Shakespeare Gallery.
QUEEN. Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
BOTTOM. Where’s Pease-blossom?
PEASEBLOSSOM. Ready.
BOTTOM. Scratch my head, Pease-blossom. –
Where’s monsieur Cobweb?
COBWEB. Ready.
BOTTOM. Monsieur Cobweb; good monsieur,
get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a
red-hip’d bumble bee on the top of a thistle;
and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bag.
William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-6), Act IV, Scene 1
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