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Currently not on display

Eugène Delacroix

Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863

Shakespeare <Hamlet>: The Death of OPHELIA

Date 1843
Materials and Techniques lithograph
Size(cm) 18.1 x 25.5 (image)
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left : E.D. 1843; Caption bottom margin: ...Ses vêtements appesantis et trempés d'eau ont entrainé la pauvre malheureuse.
Standard ref. Delteil 115 ii/iv
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1981-0032

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. 4-11
2017
Théodore Chassériau: parfum exotique, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 28 February 2017 - 28 May 2017, cat. no. 41-11.

Bibliography

1873
Moreau, Adolphe. Eugène Delacroix et son œuvre. Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873, p. 65, no. 88.
1885
Robaut, Alfred. L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix, peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris, Charavay frères, 1885, no. 591.
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. 158, no. 591, 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)
1986
Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue. vol. 3, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, cat. nos. 264, 282, 313.
1987
Eugène Delacroix: Themen und Variationen, Arbeiten auf Papier (exh. cat.). Stuffmann, Margret, ed. Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1987, pp. 116-117, no. G 11, repr.
1988
Hashi, Hidebumi. Delacroix no "Hamlet" sai-ko. Annual report of the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (1986). Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 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. 28-29, cat. no. 3
1997
Delteil, Loys. Delacroix: the graphic work, a catalogue raisonné. Strauber, Susan, trans. San Francisco, CA, Alan Wofsy, 1997, pp. 280-283, no. 115, repr.
1998
Delacroix: Le trait romantique (exh. cat.). Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1998, cat. no. 131a.
2017
Théodore Chassériau: Parfum Exotique (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo, eds. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2017, pp. 123, 127, 254, cat. no. 41-11, repr.

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