Frontispiece, from Othello
1844, printed 1900
Medium
Etching, engraving and drypoint on ivory chine, laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 39.5 × 26 cm (15 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Primary support: 39.7 × 26.4 cm (15 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Plate: 40 × 26.7 cm (15 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 63.8 × 49.5 cm (25 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
124212
About the Artist
Théodore Chassériau · 1819–1856
Théodore Chassériau was born on September 20, 1819, in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo — present-day Dominican Republic — to a French father and a Creole mother. The family relocated to Paris in 1820, and the young Chassériau's exceptional talent was evident almost immediately. At just eleven years old, in 1830, he was accepted into the prestigious studio of Jean-Auguste-D...