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frenchtwist: Faust Trying to Seduce Margarete by Eugène Delacroix, 1828

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Faust Trying to Seduce Margarete by Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Monday, March 15, 2010
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my-ear-trumpet: ghoulnextdoor: …more from the graveyarddirt files Illustration of the Walpurgis Night scene from Goethe’s Faust by Eugene Delacroix. (via DavidX’s first thread | Club Read 2009 | LibraryThing)

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ghoulnextdoor:

…more from the graveyarddirt files

Illustration of the Walpurgis Night scene from Goethe’s Faust by Eugene Delacroix. (via DavidX’s first thread | Club Read 2009 | LibraryThing)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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frenchtwist: Mephistopheles in Flight by Eugène Delacroix, 1828 This is the first of a series of seventeen illustrations supplied by Delacroix for a French translation by Albert Stapfer of Part 1 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.” . Born of Delacroix’s wish to work on a “beautiful book”, this edition of Faust is now recognized as one of the finest French romantic publications, although it wasn’t warmly welcome at the time. Stapfer in his preface was less than enthusiastic, Goethe himself was worried about Delacroix’s “tormented pencil”. Bibliophiles disdained it. Only was it praised in romantic circles, and sure enough, it was a commercial failure: In the end, Delacroix got paid for his work the derisory sum of 100 francs.

frenchtwist:

Mephistopheles in Flight by Eugène Delacroix, 1828

This is the first of a series of seventeen illustrations supplied by Delacroix for a French translation by Albert Stapfer of Part 1 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.”
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Born of Delacroix’s wish to work on a “beautiful book”, this edition of Faust is now recognized as one of the finest French romantic publications, although it wasn’t warmly welcome at the time. Stapfer in his preface was less than enthusiastic, Goethe himself was worried about Delacroix’s “tormented pencil”. Bibliophiles disdained it. Only was it praised in romantic circles, and sure enough, it was a commercial failure: In the end, Delacroix got paid for his work the derisory sum of 100 francs.

Friday, February 19, 2010