Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile

ca. 1778–79

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 11 7/16 x 7 1/16 in. (29 x 18 cm)
Collection no.: 2006.501
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Henry Fuseli. Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile. Henry Fuseli; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Mary Oenslager Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2006. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile — Henry Fuseli. ca. 1778–79.

Medium: Graphite. Dimensions: sheet: 11 7/16 x 7 1/16 in. (29 x 18 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Mary Oenslager Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2006.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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