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 and aquatint, Sheet: 457 × 302 mm. (18 × 11 7/8 in.)
Image: 320 × 239 mm. (12 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David P. Becker in Honor of Jay McKean Fisher
Object Number
1998.39
This impression of the variant comes between Fisher's 1st and 2nd states; it is before the additional burnishing of aquatint below the balcony on the right and on the foreground figure. Chassériau drew this design on the reverse of the copper plate used for published version of Plate 1.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; from David Becker, by purchase; from James Bergquist, Boston
Fisher, Jay McKean. Théodore Chassériau: Illustrations for Othello (Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1979), p. 150, #5.
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.
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: None
Markings: None
