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Hamlet and Ophelia (Act III, Scene I from Hamlet)

(French, 1798–1863)
1843
Medium/TechniqueLithograph
DimensionsImage: 24.2 x 19.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 54.8 x 35.8 cm (21 9/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession number2010.1322.5
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ClassificationsPrints
Description

Part of the 1864 edition of sixteen lithographs.

Hamlet. Seize Sujets Dessinés et Lithographiés par Eug. Delacroix. Paris: Dusac et Cie., Pagnerre, Michel Levy Frères, 1864. [Printed by Bertauts.]  In this edition, three additional compositions have been added to the thirteen published in the 1843 edition: in addition to this print, Delteil 117, Hamlet and Laertes in Ophelia's Grave [2010.1322.14]; and Delteil 114, Ophelia's Song.

ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)