![]() 124). Warren also owned Cabanel’s The Florentine Poet, that was bequeathed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, upon the death of his wife, Henriette Mott Warren, in 1923. In The Art Treasures of America, Edward Strahan described Warren’s “small and choice collection” and that the present work was “a tender treatment of a gentle listener, who gives her tears and her soul” to her story (Strahan, p. Cabanel, a painter who received numerous awards throughout his career, at that time played an important role in teaching at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in running the Salon. Desdemona was further immortalized by the great stage actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry. The Birth of Venus was one of the great successes of the 1863 Salon where it was bought by Napoleon III for his private collection. As with many Shakespearean heroines, Desdemona’s beauty, loyalty and untimely end made her a symbol of honor and love and a favored subject of artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau and Alexandre Cabanel, who was celebrated for his vivid scenes from literature and history. ![]() In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, Desdemona remains faithful to her husband Othello, only to be smothered by him for a supposed adultery. ![]()
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