Iphigenia

Karl August Kräutle|Anselm Feuerbach

1872 · Steel engraving · Drawings and Prints

This print was made to mark the acquisition of the related painting by Feuerbach by the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart in 1872. Greek legend records how the goddess Artemis saved the princess Iphigenia from sacrificial death at the hands of her father Agamemnon, then transported her to the island of Taurus to become a priestess. The leading German neoclassical painter imagined Iphigenia's sadness and isolation, and posed his model Lucia Brunacci to echo an ancient statue, "searching for the land of the Greeks with her very soul."

Artist

Karl August Kräutle|Anselm Feuerbach

Date

1872

Medium

Steel engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013