Faust Seeing Marguerite for the First Time

Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron

Artist, French, 1797 - 1867

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on wove paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2012.98.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1800), no. 14 [proof]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1800): no. 14

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76560985

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