The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 629
D'après Delacroix: Hamlet et Horatio
1873–74
Alternate titles: Hamlet and Horatio; Hamlet et Horatio, d'après Delacroix
Rewald (232): 1873–74; Venturi revised: c.1872
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
8 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (21.9 x 19.4 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Cézanne in Philadelphia Collections, July 19–August 21, 1983, no. 1, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, vol. I, p. 347, listed (Collection Gachet).
Venturi, Lionello. "'Hamlet and Horatio': A Painting by Paul Cézanne." Art Quarterly 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1956), pp. 270–71, fig. 1.
Lichtenstein, Sara. "Cézanne's Copies and Variants after Delacroix." Apollo (London) 101, no. 156 (February 1975), fig. 5, p. 117, as Hamlet and Horatio.
Thomson, Richard. "The creative copy in late nineteenth-century French art." In Drawings: Masters and Methods: Raphael to Redon
Papers presented to the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, ed. by Diana Dethloff. London: Philip Wilson Publishers in association with The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, pp. 27-28, fig. 22, as Hamlet and Horatio, c. 1870-74.
Wattenmaker, Richard et al. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, p. 153, fig. 2.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 232, ill. vol. 2, as Hamlet et Horatio, d'après Delacroix.
Mothe, Alain, et al. Cézanne à Auvers-sur-Oise. Saint-Ouen-L'Aumône: editions du Valharmeil, 2006, p. 117, ill.
Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet et Horatio au cimetière (Hamlet and Horatio at the Grave), oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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 January 4, 2019. 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 Horatio, 1873–74 (FWN 629)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=236 (accessed on April 21, 2025).
