Oil on canvas, 102 × 127 cm, painted by Henry Fuseli in 1781 and shown
at the Royal Academy in London in 1782, where it caused a scandal and
was an instant hit. A woman sleeps on her back with her hair spilling
over the edge of the bed, an incubus crouches on her chest and a ghostly
horse with blank white eyes pushes through the curtain. One of the first
paintings to put the unconscious and sexual dread on canvas without a
mythological excuse. It hangs in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
