WAG17565 The Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby, 1792 (oil on canvas) by Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825); Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands, UK; (add.info.: Penelope Boothby died in 1791 at the age of 5, the adored only child of the English intellectual landowner, radical thinker, translator and patron of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824) and his wife, Susanna Bristoe; picture shows the moment when the soul of the little girl is guided to heaven by an angel; the broken vase and butterfly are symbolic of the short life of the little girl, who was educated according to the educational ideas of Rousseau in harmony with nature;); 穢 Wolverhampton Art Gallery ; Swiss, out of copyright.
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