print
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.4
- Title
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Object: La mort de Valentin
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 3: street scene with with to right a group of men surrounding Valentin, mortally wounded, while to left his sister Marguerite raises her head in anguish, hands clasped; in the distance Faust and Mephistopheles flee the scene; illustrating an episode from Goethe's 'Faust', after Eugène Delacroix
Lithograph on buff chine collé
- Production date
- 1849-1862 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres (image)
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Width: 184 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression of this print, bound in one of three volumes of the series, see 1936,0302.14.4. For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
According to the list of plates in the bound volume, the original painting by Delacroix, which belonged to Mr. Corot, was exhibited at the Salon in 1848.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Faust
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- 1880,0710.1 to 250 constitute a series of plates for 'Les artistes anciens et modernes' from 1842-60.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.4