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Henry Fuseli

1741–1825

Zurich, Switzerland

PaintingRomanticismNeoclassicism

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• Romanticism
• Neoclassicism

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Romanticism

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Painting

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art National Gallery of Art Tate

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Artworks (72)

Aided by Eeriboia, Hermes Carries Off the Exhausted Ares from the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (recto); Sketch of One of the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (verso)

1819 · Graphite and brush and black wash, with touches of charcoal (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper

52.3 × 73 cm (20 5/8 × 28 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sheet of Studies: Three Female Heads, an Arm and a Hand. Verso: Heroic Male Nude and a Face in Profile

1817 · Graphite and chalk on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 229 x 184 mm

Tate

An Intimate Concert

1814 · graphite on laid paper

sheet: 27.94 × 20 cm (11 × 7 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side

1813 · Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper

Plate: 47 × 30.2 cm (18 9/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 33.2 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers

1812 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1016 x 1270 mm frame: 1213 x 1454 x 100 mm

Tate

The Slaying of Red Comyn by Robert the Bruce

1810 · Pen and brown iron gall ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over chalk (recto), and black chalk (verso), on tan laid paper

31.5 × 20.6 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons

1810 · Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

55.2 × 67.6 cm (21 3/4 × 26 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Debutante

1807 · Watercolour and graphite on paper

frame: 691 x 558 x 22 mm support: 371 x 243 mm image: 357 x 232 mm

Tate

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear (1776)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess) (1781)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hercules Killing the Mares of Diomedes (1800/05)

Art Institute of Chicago

Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons (c. 1816)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side (c. 1818)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower (1806)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Eugène Devéria

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François Vincent Latil

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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National Gallery of Art

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Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

10 lots · 2007–2025

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Auction History

Range: $937 – $505,250

Work	Auction House	Date	Estimate	Hammer Price
A Woman Sitting by the Window (Evening Thou Bringest All), from Specimens of Polyautography	Christie's	May 2025	$800 – $1,200	$3,528
The Vision of Orestes	Christie's	Jan 2018	$100,000 – $150,000	$218,750
Preliminary sketch for 'Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis'	Christie's	Dec 2015	£3,000 – £5,000	£8,750
The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo	Christie's	Jan 2015	$300,000 – $400,000	$377,000
Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist	Christie's	Dec 2014	£8,000 – £12,000	£176,500
Portrait of the artist's wife	Christie's	Jul 2014	£30,000 – £50,000	£122,500
Two Saints reading	Christie's	Mar 2010	£600 – £800	£937
Tête de la Vierge	Christie's	Jun 2009	€3,000 – €5,000	€3,750
The Vision of the Deluge	Christie's	Jul 2008	£80,000 – £120,000	£505,250
The parabel of the Six Wise and the Six Foolish Virgins	Christie's	Sep 2007	€3,000 – €5,000	€3,500

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