Macbeth and the Three Witches

Macbeth and the Three Witches (French: Macbeth et les trois sorcière) is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Théodore Chassériau, from 1855.^[1] It is inspired by a scene from William Shakespeare's 1623 tragedy Macbeth, when Macbeth, accompanied on horseback by Banquo, encounters the Three Witches on the moors.

Macbeth and the Three Witches
Artist	Théodore Chassériau
Year	1855
Type	Oil on panel, history painting
Dimensions	70 cm × 92 cm (28 in × 36 in)
Location	Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Shakespeare plays were a popular subject for French romantics. The picture was displayed at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, as part of a retrospective of French art of the nineteenth century. The painting was acquired in 1918 by the Louvre in Paris and was later transferred to the city's Musée d'Orsay.^[2][3]

See also

• Banquo's Ghost, an 1854 painting by Chassériau based on the same play