Théodore Chassériau, 1849 - Desdemona (The Song of the Willow) - fine art print

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In 1849 the male French painter Théodore Chassériau created the masterpiece titled "Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)". The piece of art was painted with the size - 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in (34,9 x 27 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on wood. Today, this piece of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We are glad to mention that the artpiece, which is part of the public domain is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. Creditline of the artwork: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with an aspect ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Théodore Chassériau was a male painter of French nationality, whose artistic style can be attributed primarily to Romanticism. The French artist lived for 37 years - born in the year 1819 and deceased in 1856.

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This painting is based on a print, part of a suite of fifteen etchings by Chassériau illustrating Shakespeare’s Othello, which was published in Paris in 1844. It depicts act 4, scene 3 of the play, a final moment of calm preceding Desdemona’s murder by her husband, Othello. The lyre she holds was not described by Shakespeare; Chassériau observed it in an 1836 production in which the role was performed by the celebrated singer Maria Malibran Garcia (1808–1836), called La Malibran, who was the model for the figure of Desdemona in the etching.