Desdemona Retiring to her Bed
by CHASSÉRIAU, Théodore, Oil on canvas, 42 x 32 cm
The painting takes its themes from Shakespeare, borrowing the composition that Chass�riau established in the eighth of the Othello prints that he engraved in 1844. Unfairly accused of faithlessness by her husband, the Moor Othello, a general in the service of the Venetian Republic, Desdemona has a premonition of her imminent death.