Hamlet and Horatio at the Cemetery
1835
Delacroix, the rockstar of French Romanticism, loved Shakespeare so much he basically created high-end fan art of Hamlet. Here, we catch the moody prince and his loyal friend Horatio in a graveyard at sunset, with Hamlet casually holding Yorick's skull while perched on a tombstone. The dramatic, swirling sky and theatrical costumes are classic Delacroix—bursting with emotion and proving that 19th-century painters were the original drama queens.
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