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"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Subject William Shakespeare British
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Not on view
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. His expressive conception of form had been learned in Ingres's studio then developed under Delacroix. In the series, key exchanges offer a compressed summary of much of the play, with a final cluster devoted to the tragic conclusion. Here, Othello explains to the suspicious Duke of Venice and other dignitaries how he won Desdemona's hand in marriage.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: "She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)
  • Series/Portfolio: Suite of fifteen prints: Shakespeare's Othello / Quinze Esquisses à l'eau forte dessinées et gravées par Théodore Chasseriau
  • Artist: Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris)
  • Subject: William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon)
  • Date: etched 1844, reprinted 1900
  • Medium: Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts)
  • Dimensions: plate: 13 11/16 x 14 5/16 in. (34.8 x 36.4 cm)
    image: 11 x 12 1/8 in. (27.9 x 30.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
  • Object Number: 32.7.6
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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