Study for the Play Scene from Hamlet / William Orpen
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.509
- Title
- Study for the Play Scene from Hamlet
- Artist
- William Orpen
- Artist Nationality
- Irish
- Artist Life Dates
- (1878 - 1931)
- Medium and Support
- graphite and ink wash on paper, mounted on board
- Object Creation Date
- 1898-1899
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Ireland (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Ireland (nation)
- Credit Line
- Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Modernist
- Dimensions
- 47.94 cm x 31.75 cm (18 7/8 in. x 12 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- prepatory drawing
- Secondary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Secondary Object Type
- sheet
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts two groups of figures. A darker, more heavily shadowed group that includes a prominent standing figure appears in the lower right corner. A second group of seated figures, more lightly drawn, appear in the upper left.
- Subject Matter
- This drawing is a preparatory study for Orpen's painting "The Play Scene From Hamlet," which depicts the scene from Shakespeare's play in which King Claudius watches a theatrical performance about the murder of a king (Act 3, scene 2). The finished painting, now in Houghton Hall, Norfolk, won the 1899 prize for best composition in the annual competition at the Slade School of Art in London where Orpen was a student. In the drawing Orpen experiments with the massing of figures and dramatic distribution of light for what would become the lower right corner of the final work.
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- document genres for oral or performed works
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- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3158 x 2372
- File Size
- 404 KB
- Record
- 2009/1.509
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.509/2009_1.509.jpg
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"Study for the Play Scene from Hamlet; William Orpen." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.509/2009_1.509.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
