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Triumph of Death: Three Skeletons Invading a Bacchanal Orchestrated by a Magician or an Evil Demon
- 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 laid paper (right sheet), joined and laid down on ivory Japanese paper, edge mounted on cream card
- Materials
- paper (fiber product), graphite, black ink, colored ink, ink, gray wash, wash, red wash
- Dimensions
- Both sides: 35.7 × 57.2 cm (14 1/16 × 22 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 42 × 36.9 cm (16 9/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Exhibition history
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Cite this work
Henry Fuseli, Triumph of Death: Three Skeletons Invading a Bacchanal Orchestrated by a Magician or an Evil Demon, 1770–71, 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 laid paper (right sheet), joined and laid down on ivory Japanese paper, edge mounted on cream card, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
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Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Metadata sourced from Art Institute of Chicago open data collection
Image rights: CC0
