Hamlet et le cadavre de Polonius (Hamlet and the Body of Polonius), Act III, scene 4, in Hamlet

Maker and role
Artist: Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798-1863
 Year
1843

Object detail

Media/Materials
Lithograph on chine-collé
Measurements
sheet, 22 x 14in (55.9 x 35.6cm)
image, 11 x 8 1/2in (27.9 x 21.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2001.48.9
Object type
Prints
Department
Theatre Arts
Location
Not on view
Theatre production
Play by William Shakespeare, influenced by an English production in Paris in 1827, with Charles Kemble as Hamlet and Harriet Smithson as Ophelia.
Further information
Vraiment ce conseiller est maintenant bien silencieux, bien discret, bien grave, lui qui a était le drôle le plus bavard du monde.

(Hamlet: Indeed this counsellor / Is now most still, most secret and most grave, / Who was in life a foolish prating knave.)
Documentation
Ingres, Delacroix; Loys Delteil; 1969; 113
Subject period
Romanticist
Associated person
William Shakespeare (British, b.1564, d.1616)
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