Faust und Mephisto auf dem Blocksberg, ca. 1826 – 1827

Title

Faust und Mephisto auf dem Blocksberg

Draughtsman

• Eugène Delacroix

Recto

Faust and Mephistopheles on the Blocksberg

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• graphite-clay mixture
• vellum paper

Technique

• pencil drawing

Geographic Reference

• French

Production Reason

• figure study
• movement study
• design for a lithograph
• sketch

Captions Added Later

Stempel der Sammlung Maurice Gobin, Paris (Lugt 1124b); Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Work Catalogues

• Robaut 1885.1531

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• literary representation

Persons Shown

• Heinrich Faust
• Mephisto

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Illustrated Passage

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Walpurgisnacht, 3835 ff.

Primary

• 83(GOETHE, Faust) (scenes from) specific works of literature: Goethe, Faust
• 82A(MEPHISTOPHELES) Mephistopheles, name of the demonic tempter in the literary versions of the Faust legends
• 43B16 mountain climbing, mountaineering

Secondary

• 31A2722 pulling oneself up