Image

Eugène Delacroix, printmaker

Hamlet et Horatio Devant les Fossoyeurs (Hamlet and Horatio Before the Gravediggers), 1843

Description

Maker

Title

Hamlet et Horatio Devant les Fossoyeurs (Hamlet and Horatio Before the Gravediggers)

Year

1843

Medium

Lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 28.9 x 21 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

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

State

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Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

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)

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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