Eugène Delacroix, 1849 - Hamlet and His Mother - fine art print

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This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been speaking privately with his mother, Queen Gertrude of Denmark, notices a figure behind the curtains of her closet. Immediately afterward, Hamlet will impale the hidden Polonius with his sword, and utter the memorable phrase "How now! A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!" The composition is identical to a black and white lithograph Delacroix made for a portfolio devoted to the play, which was first published in 1843.

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This artwork was made by the painter Eugène Delacroix in 1849. The 170 years old original of the artwork was made with the size - 10 3/4 x 7 1/8 in (27,3 x 18,1 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. What is more, the artpiece is in the the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 (public domain license). : Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.4, which means that the length is 29% shorter than the width. Eugène Delacroix was a painter, whose artistic style can mainly be classified as Romanticism. The painter was born in the year 1798 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne and died at the age of 65 in the year 1863.

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