Hamlet Makes the Players Enact the Poisoning of His Father, plate 7 from Hamlet
Eugène Delacroix
1835
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.9 × 32.3 cm (9 13/16 × 12 3/4 in.); Sheet: 36 × 54.8 cm (14 3/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
142578
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...