The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap
The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap

The Nightmare Rectangle Canvas Wrap

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The Nightmare (1781)
by Henry Fuseli (Switzerland, 1741-1825)

"The Nightmare" is a 1781 oil painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman in deep sleep with her arms thrown below her, and with an apelike demonic creature crouched on her chest. The painting's dreamlike and haunting evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success. For contemporary viewers, "The Nightmare" invoked the relationship of the creature and the horse (mare) to nightmares. The work was likely inspired by the waking dreams experienced by Fuseli and his contemporaries, who found that these experiences related to folkloric beliefs like the Germanic tales about demons and witches that possessed people who slept alone.

The etymology of the word "nightmare" does not relate to horses. Rather, the word is derived from mara, a Scandinavian mythological term referring to a spirit sent to torment or suffocate sleepers. The early meaning of "nightmare" included the sleeper's experience of weight on the chest combined with sleep paralysis, dyspnea, or a feeling of dread. The painting incorporates a variety of imagery associated with these ideas, depicting a mare's head and a demon crouched atop the woman. Fuseli may have added the horse as an afterthought, since a preliminary chalk sketch did not include it. Its presence in the painting has been viewed as a visual pun on the word "nightmare" and a self-conscious reference to folklore—the horse destabilizes the painting's conceit and contributes to its Gothic tone.

Rectangle Canvas Wrap

Gallery quality canvas print displays vibrant artwork that is built to last. Printed inks that are fade resistant. Inner frame is 1.25" deep and made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests.

All canvas prints are wrapped and shipped in fitted packaging.

  • Materials: cotton and polyester composite (canvas), pine wood (frame)
  • Inner frame made with radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
  • Leveling Bumpers Included - For wall protection
  • Ready To Hang - Mounting hardware comes attached
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