Don Juan and the Commander's Statue (Last Scene of Mozart's Don Giovanni)
Here he depicts the final dramatic scene from Mozart’s opera, "Don Giovanni" where the luck of the libertine Don Juan has finally run out. After killing in a duel the father of a young woman he had been seducing, he encounters his statue at a tomb. The statue comes to life and pulls Don Juan down into the fiery pit of hell.
Other versions of the subject include a large watercolor in the Detroit Institute of Arts (inv. F79.31) and an oil painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg.
Artwork Details
- Title: Don Juan and the Commander's Statue (Last Scene of Mozart's Don Giovanni)
- Artist: Alexandre Evariste Fragonard (French, Grasse 1780–1850 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1825–30
- Medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor, heightened with gum arabic
- Dimensions: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (35.3 × 26.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Bequest of James David Draper, 2019
- Object Number: 2021.15.23
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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