Title: The Actor Rouvière in the Role of Hamlet, Recoiling Before the Ghost
Object type: Relief
Date: 1866
Artist:  Auguste Préault 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1809–1879 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Bronze, brown patina
Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (52.1 x 61.6 cm.)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1972
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Theatre, term: Shakespeare, term: Men, term: Actors, term: Hamlet