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Eugène Delacroix
Mephistopheles in the air (Méphistophélès dans les airs) (1828)
lithograph
28.0 × 24.1 cm irreg. (image) (oval) 30.6 × 24.1 cm irreg. (image and text) 38.5 × 27.2 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the National Gallery Women's Association, Governor, 1982
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Mephistopheles in the air
(Méphistophélès dans les airs)
(1828)
plate 1 from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published by Charles Motte, Paris, 1828
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
28.0 × 24.1 cm irreg. (image) (oval) 30.6 × 24.1 cm irreg. (image and text) 38.5 × 27.2 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of the National Gallery Women's Association, Governor, 1982
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Delteil 58 ii/v
Edition
2nd of 5 states
Inscription
printed (diagonally) in ink l.c.l.: Delacroix invt (.. under t) et Lithog:
printed (diagonally) in ink l.c.r.: Lith: de Ch. Motte, Paris.
printed in ink l.c.: .......De temps en temps j'aime à voir le vieux Père, / Et je me garde bien de lui rompre en Visière.........
Accession Number
P42.2-1982
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Literary and Text Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
demons illustrations (layout features) legendary beings literary characters moonlight night skylines wings (animal components)
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)