Faust

Eugène Delacroix|Philipp Albert Stapfer|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Charles Motte

1828 · Lithograph; second state · Drawings and Prints

This is the first of a series of seventeen illustrations supplied by Delacroix for a French translation by Albert Stapfer of part one of Goethe's Faust, published in Paris in 1828. In this scene from the Prologue in Heaven, Mephistopheles, flying above the nocturnal city skyline, comments of his recent interview with the Lord, "I like to see the Old Man now and then, / and take good care to keep on speaking terms."

Artist

Eugène Delacroix|Philipp Albert Stapfer|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Charles Motte

Date

1828

Medium

Lithograph; second state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917