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“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello” - Image 1
“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello” - Image 2
“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello” - Image 3
“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello” - Image 4

Théodore Chassériau

“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello”

1843

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Théodore Chassériau

“Owake! What Ho! Brabantio!…” (Act I, Scene I) from “Othello”

1843

Physical Qualities Etching, engraving, roulette, Sheet: 487 × 375 mm. (19 3/16 × 14 3/4 in.) Image: 325 × 237 mm. (12 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial and Print Funds
Object Number 1978.9
Annotated proof, with pencil inscriptions. One of a complete set of proofs (frontispiece and 15 illustrations) for the series "Othello" in the Lucas Collection. Some proofs exist in multiple states.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1978; Paul Prouté, Paris; Sale Henri Delacroix, Palais Galliera, March 31, 1962, #5
Fisher, Jay McKean. Théodore Chassériau: Illustrations for Othello (Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979), pp. 36-43, illustrated p. 43.
Fisher, Jay McKean. Théodore Chassériau: Illustrations for Othello (Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979), p. 150, #6.

Sandoz, Marc. Théodore Chassériau 1819-1856: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes (Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1974), p. 422, #271.

Guégan, Stéphane, Vincent Pomarède and Louis-Antoine Prat, Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), p. 196, #85.

Inscribed: Inscribed in pencil: upper center "Othello"; upper right "Pl. 1"; lower center "Iago"; bottom center "1/2 Mnt B"

Markings: None

Artist

Théodore Chassériau

1818–1855

French, 1819-1856
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