Édouard Manet, 1865 - The Tragic Actor: Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet - fine art print

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The over 150 years old masterpiece was created by the painter Édouard Manet. The original measures the size of plate: 14 3/8 x 8 9/16in (36,5 x 21,7cm) sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 5/8in (45,1 x 29,5cm). Etching on blue laid paper, final state (ii), from 1905 strölin edition was applied by the painter as the medium of the artwork. It forms part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1921 (licensed: public domain). : Rogers Fund, 1921. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Édouard Manet was a painter of French nationality, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Realism. The painter lived for 51 years, born in the year 1832 and passed away in the year 1883 in 8th arrondissement of Paris.

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Manet here presents the celebrated French tragedian Philibert Rouvière as Hamlet, feathered hat in hand and sword at his feet, confronting the viewer against a shadowed background of scribbled lines. His distant, mournful expression, suitable for Shakespeare's tragic hero, may also convey the artist's feelings at the actor's recent death. Manet derived the powerful composition from his related oil painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), a work that recalls Velasquez's portrait of the seventeenth-century actor Pablo de Valladolid (Museo del Prado, Madrid).