Iphigenia

1872

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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Provenance

Title: Iphigenia
Engraver: Karl August Kräutle (German, Schramberg 1833–1912 Stuttgart)
Artist: After Anselm Feuerbach (German, Speyer 1829–1880 Venice)
Date: 1872
Medium: Steel engraving
Dimensions: Image: 9 5/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23.7 × 15.5 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 5/16 in. (31.1 × 21.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013
Object Number: 2013.609.2
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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