Faust In His Study | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.350
People: Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Title: Faust In His Study
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1828
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297606

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache over graphite, with areas of varnish, on cream wove paper

Dimensions

16.5 x 13.5 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r. (in black ink): Eug. Delacroix

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.350

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

David P. Becker, Drawings for Book Illustration: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., Houghton Library (Cambridge, 1980), under no. 22, p. 38
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 115, repr.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe Faust illustré par Eugène Delacroix, Diane de Selliers (Paris, 2011), repr. p. 79

Exhibition History

Between the Empires: Géricault, Delacroix, Chasseriau--Painters of the Romantic Movement, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/30/1946 - 06/01/1946

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