The Nightmare

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Work

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It shows a woman with her arms thrown below her, in deep sleep as she undergoes a nightmare as an almost hidden horse (the "night-mare") looks on as a demonic and ape-like incubus crouches on her chest.

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Image: Henry Fuseli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.