(b Charenton-Saint-Maurice, nr Paris, 26 April 1798; d
Paris, 13 Aug 1863).
French painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was one of the greatest
painters of the first half of the 19th century, the last history painter
in Europe and the embodiment of ROMANTICISM in the visual arts. At the
heart of Delacroix’s career is the paradox between the revolutionary and
the conventional: as the arch-enemy of JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES and
as the leading figure of the French Romantic movement, he was celebrated
for undermining the tradition of painting established by JACQUES-LOUIS
DAVID, yet he nevertheless enjoyed official patronage from the beginning
of the Restoration (1814–30) until the Second Empire (1852–70).
Hamlet
Illustration from Eugene Delacroix
Act I
The queen attempts to console Hamlet
1834
Act I
Hamlet sees the ghost of his father
1835
Act I
The ghost and Hamlet on the battlement
1843
Act II
Hamlet and Polonius
Act III
Hamlet reproaches Ophelia
Act III
The play-scene
1838
Act III
Hamlet and Guildenstern
Act III
Hamlet comes upon the king at prayer
1843
Act III
The murder of Polonius
Act III
Hamlet and the body of Polonius
1835
Act III
Hamlet and Gertrude
1834
Act IV
Ophelia's madness
1834
Act IV
The death of Ophelia
1843
Act V
Hamlet and Horatio with the gravediggers
1843
Act V
Hamlet and Laertes fight in the grave
1843
Act V
The death of Hamlet
1843
Hamlet and His Mother
The Death of Ophelia
Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard 1835
Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard 1839
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