Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking is a oil painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. Based on the Sleepwalking scene of the 1606 tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare, it depicts a life-size Lady Macbeth sleepwalking.Smith p.39Pomerède & Trébosc p.496 Long resident in Britain, Fuseli was known for his Gothic paintings. He produced a number of pictures inspired by Macbeth.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1784 at Somerset House in London. Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having been purchased in 1970.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE021150https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066733
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Bibliography Pomerède, Vincent & Trébosc, Delphine. 1001 Paintings at the Louvre: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Musée du Louvre Editions, 2005 Smith, Gay. Lady Macbeth in America: From the Stage to the White House. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.