Méphistophélès recevant l'écolier (Mephistopheles Receiving the Student), from Albert Stapfer's French translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust
after Eugène Delacroix, French, 1798 - 1863
after 1828
Lithograph on wove paper
Image: 10 5/16 × 8 3/8 in. (26.2 × 21.2 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 11/16 in. (43.8 × 29.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.949.25
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, upper center: 6; lettered, lower left margin: Delacroix inv.t [t in superscript] et Lithog:; lettered, lower center: Meph: Ce que vous avez de mieux a faire c'est de jurer sur la parole du maitre... / tenez vous en aux mots: vous êtes sur d'entrer par la grande porte au temple de la vérité. [Translated text: Meph: The best thing to do is to swear on the word of the master...hold yourself to these words: you are sure to enter by the great door into the temple of truth]
Exhibition History
Warner Bently Showcases, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1971-1972.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1949.
Catalogue Raisonne
Moreau (1873): 64; Delteil: 63bis; Adhémar, IFF (1953): 55
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