Accession number
PML 140541.1
Creator
Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863, Attributed to.
Published
1864?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted at the front of a copy of Victor Hugo's William Shakespeare, the volume issued as part of a set of his collected Oeuvres complètes, published in Paris by J. Hetzel in 46 volumes between 1880-1883 (see PML 140539-84).
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
The drawing and volume in which it has been inserted appear to have formerly belonged to the engraver Fortuné Méaulle; the Gordon Ray copy of Hugo's Oeuvres complètes is evidently an author's presentation copy, with 6 of the 46 volumes containing inscriptions by the author to members of the Méaulle family. Cf. Ray.
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
With the Delacroix estate stamp, bearing his initials "E.D" in red ink, at lower right.
Provenance
Fortuné Méaulle; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Preliminary drawing for one of a series of sixteen published lithographs illustrating act III, scene ii of Shakespeare's Hamlet (Paris : Dusacq, Michel Levy & Pagnerre, 1864), and showing the figure of Hamlet standing at left, with his hand on his hip and a mantle over one shoulder, looking right, as a thin and ragged player holding a pipe approaches him from that direction.
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