Image
Eugène Delacroix, printmaker
Description
Maker
- François le Villain, printer
- Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863, French, printmaker
Title
Year
Medium
Materials/Techniques
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Materials
Dimensions
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Plate: 28.9 x 21 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Lettered with artist's signature and date in image LL: "Eug. Delacroix 1843.". LC: "Ce crâne, Monsieur, ètait celui d'Yorick. le Bouffon du Roi. __ Hèl às! Pauvre Yorick!"; LR: "Lith. de Villain"
Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Heinrich Schwarz (Lugt 1372) Identification
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State
ii/iii Type
Credit
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Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth
Object Number
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50.111
About
Hamlet at left stands at the edge of a grave, looking upon the skull of Yoric, held by a grave digger waist-deep in the grave. Another sits with his back to the viewer, Horatio looks on. From a series of 16 prints.
Lettered with artist's signature and date in image LL: "Eug. Delacroix 1843.". LC: "Ce crâne, Monsieur, ètait celui d'Yorick. le Bouffon du Roi. __ Hèl às! Pauvre Yorick!"; LR: "Lith. de Villain"
Verso: stamped with the collector's mark of Heinrich Schwarz (Lugt 1372)