# Silence

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/silence-r53c07e7e76852c>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [FUSELI, John Henry](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 63,5 x 51,5 cm

## Commentary

In the Romantic period we encounter the man meditating on destiny in many works, right through to Auguste Rodin&#39;s The Thinker. Whenever the artist needed to express horror, incredulity, helplessness in the face of fate, we find the seated figure with his hollow gaze. In keeping with his style and temperament Fuseli intensified this expression in Ezzelin and Meduna, and even more in Silence \(c. 1799-1801, Kunsthaus, Zurich\).

## Related artworks

- [Adam and Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/adam-and-eve-r67ec62782d527e>)
- [Brunhilde Observing Gunther, Whom She Has Tied to the Ceiling](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/brunhilde-observing-gunther-whom-she-has-tied-to-the-ceiling-r478f1dd80b1642>)
- [Courtesan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/courtesan-r27bf09ac33fa99>)
- [Dante and Virgil on the Ice of Kocythos](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/dante-and-virgil-on-the-ice-of-kocythos-r4c47e062ea94f3>)
- [Ezzelin and Meduna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/ezzelin-and-meduna-r85cc511807026a>)
- [Gertrude, Hamlet and the Ghost of Hamlet&#39;s Father](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/gertrude-hamlet-and-the-ghost-of-hamlets-father-re120804052024a>)
- [Lady Macbeth](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/lady-macbeth-rb6ffa44a96093e>)
- [Lady Macbeth with the Daggers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/lady-macbeth-with-the-daggers-rfbef91251b4b8b>)
- [Leonore Discovering the Dagger Left by Alonzo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/leonore-discovering-the-dagger-left-by-alonzo-r338e5c84db32d8>)
- [Portrait of a Young Woman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/portrait-of-a-young-woman-r27bec1327e907d>)
- [Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/self-portrait-rbb1798153b69df>)
- [Symplegma of a Man with Three Women](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/fuseli-john-henry-rf473b4aa66a300/symplegma-of-a-man-with-three-women-r7e6ba1099d89b2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)