2007.36: Mounet-Sully dans Hamlet
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2007.36
- People
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Henri Gabriel Ibels, French (1867 - 1936)
- Title
- Mounet-Sully dans Hamlet
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/318274
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
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image: 32 x 24 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 38.9 x 28.7 cm (15 5/16 x 11 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l. H.G. Ibels (in lithograph)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William S. Lieberman
- Accession Year
- 2007
- Object Number
- 2007.36
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Henri-Gabriel Ibels was a contemporary of Toulouse-Lautrec with whom he shared a medium, lithography, and a demi-monde. They co-illustrated a portfolio in 1893 showing the Parisian underworld, Le Café-concert. This lithograph does not come from this series, although its format is quite similar. The sheet shows the famous actor Jean Mounet-Sully as Hamlet, musing over Yorick's skull. Mounet-Sully first played the part at the Comedie Francaise in 1886-Mallarmé saw him in the part in October of that year. He performed it at least 200 times, and starred in a silent film version of it in 1909.
Verification Level
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