Henry Fuseli · 1781
The Nightmare
Posters from $15.00 CAD · Canvas from $39.00 CAD
Ships across Canada
A woman in a white gown lies thrown back across a bed in deep sleep while an ape-like incubus crouches on her chest and a ghostly horse's head peers through red curtains. Detroit Institute of Arts.
Up to 29.9 × 24 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
+ tax at checkout
Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Nightmare
The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by Henry Fuseli showing a sleeping woman with an ape-like incubus on her chest while a horse looks on. It was first shown at the Royal Academy in 1782 and became his first commercially successful work; Fuseli painted other versions, and an engraving by Thomas Burke, circulated from January 1783, earned its publisher more than 500 pounds (Wikipedia, The Nightmare).
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.
All Henry Fuseli prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
You may also like
Henry Fuseli · 1796
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Mini · Petite · Small
From $15.00 CAD
Henry Fuseli · c.1790
Titania and Bottom
Mini
From $15.00 CAD
Caspar David Friedrich · c. 1817
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium · Large
From $15.00 CAD
J. M. W. Turner · 1839
The Fighting Temeraire
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium
From $15.00 CAD
John Constable · 1821
The Hay Wain
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium
From $15.00 CAD
John Constable · 1819
The White Horse
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium
From $15.00 CAD