All Resolutions
Faust. What weave they there round the raven-stone? [...]
Soaring up, sweeping down, bowing and bending!
Mephistopheles. A witches' -guild.
Faust. They scatter, devote and doom!
Mephistopheles. On! on!
(Facing p. 135.)
Artist
- Name:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Dates:
- 1798-1863
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Book
- Title:
- Faust (Delacroix)
- Author(s):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Publisher:
- Paris: Ch. Motte, 1828
Description
Two men on galloping horses are riding away from a sabbath-like ceremony taking place around gallows and, while they are conversing, a spectral female figure watches them pass by from a ditch.
The caption reads in French:
Faust : Que vois-je remuer autour de ce gibet ? […]
Ils vont et viennent, ils se baissent et se relèvent.
Meph. : C’est une assemblée de sorciers.
Faust : Ils sèment et consacrent.
Meph. : En avant ! en avant !
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, death, eerie, Faust, gallows, horse, riding, Romanticism, talking
