Man and Woman in a Landscape (Faust and Marguerite) ca. 1826–27 Richard Parkes Bonington British 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 fri
Man and Woman in a Landscape (Faust and Marguerite) ca. 1826–27 Richard Parkes Bonington British 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 Man and Woman in a Landscape (Faust and Marguerite) 343205
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