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Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)
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Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (34.9 x 27 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Théodore Chassériau

1819–1856France

Born in the Dominican Republic. Painter of decorative schemes, portraits, nudes, and North African scenes. Perhaps most famous for the decoration of the Cour des Comptes in the Palais d'Orsay; he combined Ingres' classical linear grace with Delacroix's Romantic color. Comment on works: history