useli painted more than 200 pictures, but he exhibited only a small number of them. His earliest painting represented "Joseph interpreting the Dreams of the Baker and Butler"; the first to excite particular attention was The Nightmare, exhibited in 1782.[1] He painted two versions, shown in the Nightmare article. Themes seen in The Nightmare were repeated in his 1796 painting, Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches.