# Desdemona Retiring to her Bed

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CHASSÉRIAU, Théodore](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 42 x 32 cm

## Commentary

The painting takes its themes from Shakespeare, borrowing the composition that Chassériau 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.

## Related artworks

- [Andromeda and the Nereids](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/andromeda-and-the-nereids-r8f3092adcbdd30>)
- [Medea about to Kill her Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/medea-about-to-kill-her-children-r33621b4d3c0ed8>)
- [Orientalist Interior: Nude in a Harem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/orientalist-interior-nude-in-a-harem-rcddbd1e069fb65>)
- [Peace](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/peace-rdfce7ff9a1654e>)
- [Reverend Father Dominique Lacordaire](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/reverend-father-dominique-lacordaire-r81e587bd14bcb5>)
- [Sappho Leaping into the Sea from the Leucadian Promontory](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/sappho-leaping-into-the-sea-from-the-leucadian-promontory-rb6a928a4ae0bcf>)
- [Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/self-portrait-rb2ad1bf8dc201d>)
- [The Artist&#39;s Sisters](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/the-artists-sisters-r9eea6a19f9fba6>)
- [The Tepidarium \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/the-tepidarium-detail-r24dafe553f4005>)
- [The Tepidarium](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/the-tepidarium-rc44b19e3e569cc>)
- [The Toilet of Esther](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chassriau-thodore-r5b9a388e30b33c/the-toilet-of-esther-rf5777c48e87e3f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)