Macbeth: The Murder of Duncan
Macbeth: The Murder of Duncan

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Macbeth: The Murder of Duncan,

ca. 1880

Gustave Doré, French, 1832–1883
2016-88

Information

Title
Macbeth: The Murder of Duncan
Dates

ca. 1880

Maker
Gustave Doré
Medium
Brush and brown and grey ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache
Dimensions
49.5 × 38.1 cm (19 1/2 × 15 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund
Object Number
2016-88
Place Made

Europe, France

Inscription
Inscribed in graphite, on verso of mount upper left: Shakespeare | "The Murder of Duncan"
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in red ink, lower right: Atelier | G. Doré [in oval] [Lugt 681a]
Culture
French
Type
drawings
Materials
ink, gouache, wash, wove paper
Techniques
heightening
Subject
men, murders, plays, theaters, women, figures (representations)

Artist’s studio stamp, lower right (Lugt 681 a); artist’s estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 13, 1885, probably part of lot 100: “Onze dessins ébauchés au pinceau pour Macbeth. H: 59; L: 40__Vendus 2, 650 fr.” (cf. H. Leblanc, Catalogue de l’Oeuvre Complet de Gustave Dorė [Paris: 1931], p. 495); sale, Bonham’s, London, November 8, 2005, lot 7; private collection, U.S.A; Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund

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