Macbeth and the Three Witches (French: Macbeth et les trois sorcières) is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Théodore Chassériau, from 1855.Sandoz p.512 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.
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.
See also Banquo's Ghost, an 1854 painting by Chassériau based on the same play
References
Bibliography Sandoz, Marc Théodore Chassériau, 1819–1856: Catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes. 1974.