Johann Heinrich FüssliSwiss, 1741–1825The Changeling
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 1980.1091
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- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — CC0
Meanwhile, in the life of Johann Heinrich Füssli
The whole life1770–1778
Rome: Michelangelo and a new name, Fuseli
During his Italian years Füssli changed his name to the more Italian-sounding Fuseli; in Rome he moved in the circle of the Scottish painter Alexander Runciman and the Swedish sculptor Tobias Sergel, and he also met Anton Raphael Mengs. He studied Michelangelo and liked to contemplate the marble statues of Monte Cavallo in the evening, against a murky sky or lit by lightning.
1770–1778
Travel: Italy
1778–1825 · Workplace
Great Britain
early 1779
Returns to London by way of Zürich
In early 1779 Fuseli returned to Britain, visiting Zürich on the way; in London, where he was already famous, a commission awaited him from the print publisher John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery he was then creating, and Fuseli painted several pictures for it. In London he also published the English translation of Lavater's work on physiognomy and helped the poet William Cowper with his translation of Homer.
1782
“The Nightmare” is exhibited
Fuseli's earliest painting was “Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of the Baker and Butler”, but the first to excite particular attention was “The Nightmare”, exhibited in 1782. He painted several versions of it.
