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Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

Until 8 Jan 2023

Book now for Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism. Friends go free.

The exhibition features fifty of Henri Fuseli’s striking private drawings which explore his fascination with female sexuality and the modern woman in the 18th century.

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i Henry Fuseli, Woman in a Sculpture Gallery​ (1798) Pen and black ink, brush and watercolour, over graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolour 410 x 247 mm Photo © bpk | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | Herbert Boswank

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Gallery Talks, Public Programmes

Lunchtime Talk

1:00pm, 7 Dec 2022 | Free

Lunchtime talks are delivered by students and researchers at The Courtauld Institute of Art on works in the collection. The talks take place in the gallery and are an informal and interesting way of looking closely at an artwork....

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Curator's Talk

4:00pm, 7 Dec 2022 | Free

Join us in the gallery for a free Curator's Talk....

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