Othello Hesitating to Kill Desdemona

ca. 1795–1810

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Dimensions: 6 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (17.5 × 22 cm)
Collection no.: 2021.165.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

François Gérard. Othello Hesitating to Kill Desdemona. François Gérard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, 2021. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Othello Hesitating to Kill Desdemona — François Gérard. ca. 1795–1810.

Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk. Dimensions: 6 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (17.5 × 22 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, 2021.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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