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Man and woman in a landscape (Faust and Marguerite)

ca. 1826–27
Not on view
Rich brown ink is used here to describe a hilly landscape with a gallant figure in late medieval dress reading to a demure young woman. They likely represent Faust and Marguerite from Goethe's dramatic poem "Faust" (1808). The latter tells how a young nobleman becomes fascinated with magic, sells his soul to the devil and seduces and destroys the innocent Marguerite. Dramatic literary subjects of this kind appealed to the British-born Bonington, and to French artists he knew in Paris. His close friend Delacroix once owned this drawing and, in 1828, would create a series of seventeen lithographs inspired by Faust.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Man and woman in a landscape (Faust and Marguerite)
  • Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
  • Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, Frankfurt am Main 1749–1832 Weimar, Saxe-Weimar)
  • Date: ca. 1826–27
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite
  • Dimensions: sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 in. (11.4 x 15.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Sisi Cahan, 2000
  • Object Number: 2000.516
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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