Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard

Eugène Delacroix French

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A highly literate artist, Delacroix was often drawn to the works of William Shakespeare. This scene from Hamlet, for example, appears and reappears in the artist’s drawings, prints, and paintings. It describes the tragicomic encounter between Hamlet and the gravediggers in Act V. Here Hamlet and Horatio contemplate the skull of the fool Yorick.

Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper

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Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper
Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Brush and brown wash with watercolor over graphite on heavy watercolor paper

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