Portrait Medallion of Faust and Marguerite, publisher's sheet from Faust
Achille Devéria
1828
Medium
Lithograph in black on light pink wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.6 × 19.5 cm (10 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Sheet: 42.7 × 28.6 cm (16 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136670
About the Artist
Achille Devéria · 1800–1857
Achille Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria (1800–1857) was a French painter and lithographer whose prolific output and sophisticated portrait work made him one of the most important visual chroniclers of French Romantic culture. Born in Paris on February 6, 1800, Devéria came of age during the Restoration period and became closely associated with the Romantic movement that dominated French arts and letter...