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Currently not on display

Eugène Delacroix

Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863

Macbeth Consulting the Witches

Date 1825
Materials and Techniques lithograph
Size(cm) 32.5 x 25.0 (image); 54.5 x 36.0 (paper)
Inscriptions Inscribed in the lower center: MACBETH TOIL AND 'TROUBLE: FIRE BURN, AND CALUDRON BUBBLE'; In upper right: L'Artiste; In lower left: IMP. BERTAUTS, R. RODIER, PARIS
Standard ref. Delteil 40 v/v; Robaut 117; Delteil & Strauber 40
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2011-0007

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2011.

Exhibition History

2017
Théodore Chassériau: parfum exotique, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 28 February 2017 - 28 May 2017, cat. no. 46.
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 8 April 2023 - 11 June 2023, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 July-3 September, pp. 91, 230-231, cat. no. 2-56

Bibliography

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. 37, no. 117, repr.
1997
Delteil, Loys. Delacroix: the graphic work, a catalogue raisonné. Strauber, Susan, trans. San Francisco, CA, Alan Wofsy, 1997, pp. 98-101, no. 40, repr.
2013
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 46 (Apr. 2011-Mar. 2012), 2013, List of New Acquisitions. p. 48.
2017
Théodore Chassériau: Parfum Exotique (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo, eds. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2017, pp. 134, 255, cat. no. 46, repr.
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). Kawase, Yusuke; Inaba, Yuta; Nakada, Asuka et al., eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2023, pp. 91, 230-231, cat. no. 2-56, col. repr.

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