Iphigenia
Engraver Karl August Kräutle German
After Anselm Feuerbach German
Not on view
This print was made to mark the acquisition of the related painting by Feuerbach by the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart in 1872. Greek legend records how the goddess Artemis saved the princess Iphigenia from sacrificial death at the hands of her father Agamemnon, then transported her to the island of Taurus to become a priestess. The leading German neoclassical painter imagined Iphigenia's sadness and isolation, and posed his model Lucia Brunacci to echo an ancient statue, "searching for the land of the Greeks with her very soul."
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