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© collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond, promised gift to the Sterling and Francine Clark Museum
FWN 1843-TA
D'après Delacroix: Hamlet et Horation
1873
Alternate titles: After Delacroix: Hamlet and Horatio; Hamlet and Horatio (after Delacroix); Hamlet and Horatio contemplating the Skull of Yorick; Hamlet and Horation, after Delacroix; Hamlet Contemplating the Skull of Yorick
Chappuis (326)
Black crayon on bistre paper
4 7/8 x 6 11/16 in. (12.4 x 17 cm)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (Gift of Herbert and Carol Diamond) (2018.11.3)

Keywords

Provenance
Dr. Paul Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise;
Paul Gachet fils, Auvers-sur-Oise;
Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris (1962)
Private collection, Paris
David and Constance Yates, New York
Herbert and Carol Diamond, New York:
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (2018)
Exhibition History
2001 Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond, September 14, 2001, no. 8, p. 18, ill. p. 15, as Hamlet and Horation, after Delacroix.
Published References
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 347, listed (Collecton Gachet).
Gachet 1952a
Gachet, Paul. Cézanne à Auvers: Cézanne graveur. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Éditions d'études et de documents, 1952, ill.
Berthold 1958
Berthold, Gertrude. Cézanne und die alten Meister. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1958, cat. no. 245.
Andersen 1970
Andersen, Wayne V. Cézanne's Portrait Drawings. Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press, 1970, pp. 11–12, fig. 11, as Hamlet Contemplating the Skull of Yorick.
Chappuis 1973
Chappuis, Adrien. The Drawings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973, no. 326, ill., as After Delacroix: Hamlet and Horatio.
Lichtenstein 1975
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 7, p. 117, as Hamlet and Horatio contemplating the Skull of Yorick.
Stein 1999
Stein, Susan, with the assistance of Julie Steiner. "Summary Catalogue of Works by Major Artists (Volume II, Cézanne [catalogue raisonné by Paul Gachet fils)." Cézanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachet. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 211, P.G. II-42, ill., as Hamlet and Horatio (after Delacroix), 1873.
Mothe et al. 2006
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 92, ill.
D'après Delacroix: Hamlet et Horation, 1873 (FWN 1843-TA). Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet contemplant le crâne de Yorick (Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorik), lithographe, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Dr. Gachet owned a print of this.
Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet contemplant le crâne de Yorick (Hamlet contemplating the skull of Yorik), lithographe, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Dr. Gachet owned a print of this.
Photo: © Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Record last updated November 17, 2023. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "D'après Delacroix: Hamlet et Horation, 1873 (FWN 1843-TA), on bistre paper." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1984 (accessed on April 24, 2024).