The animal in the upper left has pale eyes with no iris or pupils visible, while the figure atop the woman looks at the viewer pensively with his left hand cradling his chin.
A persistent rumor contemporary with this painting's first exhibition in 1782 had it that the artist ate raw pork for inspiration. On the stand at the lower left are glass and clay jars which some critics suggest could contain laudanum, while the central figures are framed by a burgundy drape in the background which matches the sheet on which the prone female lies. The animal in the upper left has pale eyes with no iris or pupils visible, while the figure atop the woman looks at the viewer pensively with his left hand cradling his chin. Loaded with sexual overtones and featuring a horse looking on while an incubus sits on a sleeping woman's chest, for 10 points, name this work by Henry Fuseli depicting a bad dream.
A persistent rumor contemporary with this painting's first exhibition in 1782 had it that the artist ate raw pork for inspiration.
The {Nightmare}