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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.36
People
Henri Gabriel Ibels, French (1867 - 1936)
Title
Mounet-Sully dans Hamlet
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/318274

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
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
  • 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
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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.

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