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John Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli)
Satan and Death with Sin Intervening1799-1800

Not on view
Oil painting of three pale nude figures in violent struggle, with coiling serpents and dark feathered wings, against a near-black background

John Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli), Satan and Death with Sin Intervening, 1799-1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick N. Nicholas, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Swerdlow and Mr. and Mrs. William K. Glikbarg, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
John Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Fussli)
Switzerland, Zurich, active England, 1741-1825
Title
Satan and Death with Sin Intervening
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1799-1800
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 26 1/2 × 23 in. (67.31 × 58.42 cm) Frame: 32 1/2 × 29 × 3 1/2 in. (82.55 × 73.66 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick N. Nicholas, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Swerdlow and Mr. and Mrs. William K. Glikbarg
Accession Number
59.56
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Nineteenth-Century European Art. London: Laurence King Publishing, Ltd., 2002.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Salvesen, Britt, and Jim Shedden. Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, 2016.
  • Hart, Katherine W. James Gillray: Prints by the Eighteenth-Century Master of Caricature. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1994.