Stage Setting for 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare
1901
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1901
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Stage Setting for 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare is a 1901 paint by Charles Buchel, a Post-Impressionism work, depicting Garden, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a stage set for Shakespeare’s *Twelfth Night*. Heavy curtains frame a moonlit garden scene. A shipwreck’s wreckage lies in the corner. The colors are soft and misty, like early morning light. Buchel painted this in 1901 for a real London play. He worked closely with the theater’s famous actor-manager. The design feels dreamy, not like a real place. Check out Buchel, Charles next—he did the stage designs and actor portraits for this show.
Charles Buchel’s oil painting depicts the stage setting for Herbert Beerbohm Tree’s 1901 production of *Twelfth Night* at Her Majesty’s Theatre. The scene shows an outdoor garden with a long, gently rising flight of grassy steps at center right, flanked by trimmed hedges and a bridge on the left, and a garden seat with griffin armrests on the right. Pink flowering shrubs line the steps, which lead to a distant point where trees frame the composition, while a letter lies at the base of the steps. At the top of the steps, Malvolio stands in black attire.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel) (1872–1950) was a British artist. Buchel was born in Mainz, Germany, but immigrated to England as a child. Buchel studied art at the Royal Academy Schools. He was hired by the…
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