Frontispiece, from Othello, Théodore Chassériau, 1900
Frontispiece, from Othello, 1900, Etching, engraving, roulette, drypoint on chine collé, plate: 15 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris), In 1844 Eugène Piot commissioned the young Chassériau to prepare fifteen illustrations to Shakespeare's Othello. Inspired by a series of ground-breaking Hamlet lithographs that Delacroix had created one year earlier, the younger artist opted for the more linear technique of etching
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