Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet
The story
The famous opera singer Jean-Baptiste Faure draws a dagger as Hamlet in the moment he swears revenge before his father's ghost. Manet needed nearly forty sittings and destroyed several versions to get to this 1877 painting, but Faure refused to accept the result.
- Artist
- Édouard Manet
- Year
- 1877
- Period
- Impressionist
- Where it lives
- Own work
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
