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"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)
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"O Spartan dog": plate 15 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau | William Shakespeare

1844

Medium

Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint, aquatint or sulphur tint on chine collé

Tags

ShakespeareSwordsMenWomenDeathBeds

Dimensions

sheet: 25 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 48.9 cm) plate: 12 5/8 x 15 7/8 in. (32.1 x 40.4 cm) image: 11 5/16 x 14 5/8 in. (28.7 x 37.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Théodore Chassériau

1819–1856 • France

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

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