Eugène Delacroix, 1843 - Death of Ophelia - fine art print

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In 1834 Delacroix began a series of lithographs devoted to Hamlet, creating moody images that mirror the troubled psyche of the prince. Choosing key scenes and poetic passages, the artist's highly personal and dramatic images were unusual in France, where interest in Shakespeare developed only in the nineteenth century. Here, Ophelia, whose mind has become unhinged by the murder of her father Polonius, and rejection by Hamlet, has fallen into a stream while picking flowers, and her water-logged gown will soon drag her down to "muddy death." This sad event takes place offstage and is poetically described in act 4, scene 7 by Queen Gertrude. Gihaut frères published the artist's thirteen-print set in 1843, with a second expanded edition of sixteen issued by Bertauts in 1864. Cooly received at first, the prints eventually were recognized as one of the artist's most significant achievements.

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This more than 170 year-old artpiece named Death of Ophelia was made by the male painter Eugène Delacroix in 1843. The beyond 170 year old original was made with the absolute size - Image: 10 3/16 x 7 3/8 in (25,9 x 18,8 cm) Sheet: 17 x 13 11/16 in (43,2 x 34,8 cm) and was produced with the technique of lithograph; first state of three. Today, this piece of art can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928 (licensed - public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928. Moreover, alignment is in landscape format with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Eugène Delacroix was an artist from France, whose style can primarily be classified as Romanticism. The artist lived for 65 years, born in 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and passed away in the year 1863 in Paris.

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