1825
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Macbeth Consulting the Witches is a 1825 by Eugène Delacroix, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows a dark scene with Macbeth and witches. It's a night scene with a boiling cauldron. The artist used a special technique to create this effect, which is similar to chiaroscuro, a method using strong contrasts of light and dark to create a sense of volume, and you can learn more about this technique by looking up chiaroscuro.
A master lithographer, Delacroix experimented with the technique. By covering the surface of the stone with rich, black lithographic crayon and then scratching out the design with a sharp tool, Delacroix heightened the diabolical effect of this night scene where sorcerers tend to their boiling cauldron.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( DEL-ə-krwah, -KRWAH; French: ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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