Triumph of Death: Three Skeletons Invading a Bacchanal

A pale wash-and-graphite drawing on two joined sheets shows a crowd of nude and draped figures in a tangle of revelry. On the right, three skeletal figures in red-tinted drapery loom above the frenzied group, while sketched figures fill the left sheet.

Artist

Henry Fuseli

Date

1770–71

Medium

Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper (left sheet); graphite, pen and black ink, and brush and reddish-gray wash, on ivory

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1044 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection