"Yet she must die": plate 11 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Medium
Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts)
Dimensions
plate: 14 7/16 x 10 3/8 in. (36.7 x 26.3 cm) image: 12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in. (30.9 x 24.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.7.11
Tags
About the Artist
Théodore Chassériau|William Shakespeare · 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...