Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)

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Artist: Théodore Chassériau (French, Le Limon, Saint-Domingue, West Indies 1819–1856 Paris)
Date: 1849
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 10 5/8 in. (34.9 x 27 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession no.: 2019.141.8

Portrait of the Baroness Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau
1846 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00003206
Othello's Speech to the Senators of Venice
Théodore Chassériau
c. 1844 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005465
Scene in the Jewish Quarter of Constantine
Théodore Chassériau
1851 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00015961
Scene from the Gallic Wars: The Gaul Littavicus, Betraying the Roman Cause, Flees to Gergovie to Support Vercingétorix
Théodore Chassériau
ca. 1838–40 · Painting
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016062

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.