Maria Malibran as Desdemona is an 1830 portrait painting by the Belgian artist Henri Decaisne depicting the Spanish singer Maria Malibran.

[1] Malibran is depicted in the role of Desdemona from Gioachino Rossini 's opera Otello, itself based on William Shakespeare's play of the same title.

[2] Decaisne was one of several French-based portraitists strongly influenced by the work of Thomas Lawrence in the 1820s.

He submitted this work to the Royal Academy's 1830 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, having been acquired in 1924.