Faust Seeing Marguerite for the First Time

Not on View

Medium

engraving on wove paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 56.1 × 39.4 cm (22 1/16 × 15 1/2 in.)

sheet: 66.9 × 45.3 cm (26 5/16 × 17 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1800), no. 14 [proof]

Accession Number

2012.98.1

Artists / Makers

Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron (artist) French, 1797 - 1867

Ary Scheffer (artist after) Dutch, 1795 - 1858

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: à Bein mon Confrère et ami / Adolphe Caron; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Adolphe Caron (1797 - 1867); by later hand, lower center in graphite: Faust and Margarete after Ary Scheffer

Provenance

Professor Leo Steinberg, New York; his estate; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1800): no. 14