Hamlet fait jouer aux comédiens la scène de l'empoisonnement de son père (Hamlet has the Actors Play the Scene of his Father's Poisoning), Act III, scene 2, 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
TL2001.48.5
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
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.

("... 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' / that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it / touches us not ... He poisons him i' the garden for's estate... the story is extant, and writ in / choice Italian...")
Documentation
Ingres, Delacroix; Loys Delteil; 1969; 109
Subject period
Romanticist
Associated person
William Shakespeare (British, b.1564, d.1616)
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