Francis Legat - King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3) - fine art print

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Legat's print reproduces Barry's tragic representation of King Lear mourning his daughter, the original nine by twelve foot canvas painted for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in 1786-7, now at Tate Britain. Four years residence in Rome two decades earlier gave the artist a deep admiration for Italian art, and his heroically scaled king recalls Michelangelo's Prophet Jeremiah from the Sistine Ceiling, while Kent's elegantly muscled form echoes Parmigianino. The setting includes chalk cliffs near Dover, mentioned in the play, and Druidic temples resembling Stonehenge. Setting aside the happy ending introduced by Naham Tate in 1681, an adaption that held the London stage through the early 19th century, Barry represents Shakespeare's original heartrending conception.

The painting "King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)" as art copy

King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3) was painted by the male British painter Francis Legat. The original measures the size: Plate: 19 7/16 × 24 11/16 in (49,4 × 62,7 cm) Sheet: 20 3/8 in × 26 in (51,7 × 66 cm) and was painted with the techinque etching and engraving. It can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942 (license: public domain). : Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has a side ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width.

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