Faust Trying to Seduce Marguerite (Goethe, Faust)
1825–27
Medium
Lithograph, seventh state of seven
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. (48.5 x 31.8 cm) Image: 11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. (28.5 x 20.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of David J. Impastato, 1962
Accession Number
62.617.2
Tags
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...