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Portrait de Goethe (Portrait of Goethe)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Eugène Delacroix

Printed by: Villain
Title
Portrait de Goethe (Portrait of Goethe)
Description
English: Head and shoulders, three-quarter length to left; wearing a fur collar. 1827
Lithograph
Depicted people Portrait of: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Date 1827
date QS:P571,+1827-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 147 millimetres (image (without facsimile signature))
Height: 430 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 155 millimetres (image)
Width: 297 millimetres (sheet)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1924,1014.7.1
Notes

Delacroix's interest in Goethe's 'Faust' was said to be greatly influenced by Retzsch's illustrations, and he also later saw a production of the drama in London. He spent three years producing a series of lithographs (originally twelve, but increased to seventeen) illustrating the story and in addition a portrait of the author. He finished this project in 1827. In 1828, the text of a French translation by Albert Stapfer - 'Faust Tragédie de M. de Goethe', Paris, Charles Motte (éditeur, no.13 rue des Marais) and Sautelet (libraire, Place de la Bourse) - was added to the prints, a decision by Motte which Delacroix did not approve of. The publication was also criticised in the press, although it was praised in some circles.

At some unknown later date, another edition of lithographs was printed by Villain, who replaced Motte's name with his own. There are several states of each lithograph, and the differences include the printers' names, which include Motte, Villain, and others in the later states. See "Delacroix's Illustrations to Goethe's Faust" (exhibition catalogue), The National Gallery of Scotland, 2 February - 31 March 1980.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1924-1014-7-1
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