All Resolutions
And have care to be most civil.
(Facing p. 15.)
Artist
- Name:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Dates:
- 1798-1863
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Book
- Title:
- Faust (Delacroix)
- Author(s):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Publisher:
- Paris: Ch. Motte, 1828
Description
Mephistopheles is pictured flying over a city, naked, with a goat-like face, spread wings, and claw-like nails, looking back as if startled by a call from above.
The caption reads in French:
… De temps en temps j’aime à voir le vieux Père,
Et je me garde bien de lui rompre en visière…
The caption in English was taken from the translation of Faust by Bayard Taylor. New York: Arden Book Company, n.d.
Keywords: 1820s, 19th century, black & white, cityscape, devil, eerie, Faust, flying, Romanticism, supernatural
