Updated 31 January 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Shakespeare <Hamlet>: HAMLET Has the Actors Play the Scene of His Father’s Poisoning
Date | 1835 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 24.6 x 32.3 (image) |
Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower right: Eug. Delacroix 1835; Inscribed at margin lower right: Lith. de Villain; Caption bottom margin: 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. |
Standard ref. | Delteil 109 ii/iv |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1981-0027 |
Provenance
Frederick Mulder, London; Donated by Kyôryoku-kai-society of the NMWA, 1982.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 4-6
- 2004
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Prints of Delacroix: ‘Faust’ and ‘Hamlet’, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2 March 2004 - 30 May 2004, cat. no. 24
- 2017
- Théodore Chassériau: parfum exotique, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 28 February 2017 - 28 May 2017, cat. no. 41-6.
Bibliography
- 1886
- Beraldi, Henri. Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle. tome 5, Paris, 1886, p. 162.
- 1969
- Robaut, Alfred; Chesneau, Ernest. L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix: peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. New York, Da Capo Press, 1969 (1st ed., Paris, 1885), p. 155, no. 583, repr.
- 1983
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 16 (1981), 1983, Yaegashi, Haruki. On the New Acquisitions 1981. pp. 12-13, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 30-37, repr.
- 1986
- Hashi, Hidebumi. Delacroix no "Hamlet" ni kansuru nisan no mondai. Annual report of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (1984). Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 1986, pp. 18-34. (in Japanese)
- 1988
- Hashi, Hidebumi. Delacroix no "Hamlet" sai-ko. Annual report of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (1986). 1988, pp. 19-30. (in Japanese)
- 1989
- Narrative Image-book Illustration in 19th Century (exh. cat.). 15 June - 30 July 1989. [Tochigi], Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Tokyo, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1989, pp. 28-30, cat. no. 4-a-2, repr.
- 1997
- Delteil, Loys. Delacroix: the graphic work, a catalogue raisonné. Strauber, Susan, trans. San Francisco, CA, Alan Wofsy, 1997, pp. 268-269, no. 109, repr.
- 1998
- Delacroix: Le trait romantique (exh. cat.). Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1998, cat. no. 124a.