Hamlet fait jouer aux comédiens la scène de l'empoisonnement de son père (Act. III Sc. II) (Hamlet Has the Actors Play the Scene of the Poisoning of His Father), from Shakespeare's Hamlet Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)

1835

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Eugène Delacroix treated literary themes in both paintings and prints, and Hamlet is the work he turned to more than any other—he made no fewer than eleven paintings on subjects from the play. These lithographs are his second major series of prints illustrating literature, following the Faust images. The first edition, published in 1843, included just these thirteen prints; three other images were omitted from this edition but were ultimately published in 1864.

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

stone: 9 13/16 × 12 11/16 in. (25 × 32.3 cm)
framed: 21 5/8 × 23 5/8 × 1 1/8 in. (54.95 × 60 × 2.85 cm)

Credit Line

The Arthur Ross Collection

Accession Number

2012.159.56.6

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Arthur Ross Foundation, New York, to 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Suzanne Boorsch et al., Meant to Be Shared: The Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015), 10, 72, fig. 9, 2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs

Inscriptions

Below image: C'est une intrigue scélérate; mais qu'importe? Votre Majesté et nous avons la conscience libre, cela ne nous touche en rien . . . vous voyez: il l'empoisonne dans le jardin pour s'emparer de son royaume . . . l'histoire est réelle écrite en bel italien./ Lith. de Villain; LL corner, in graphite: 109 ii/iii

Signed

Within image LR corner: Eug. Delacroix 1856.

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