Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Faust Johann Wolfgang Goethe

In 1828, Delacroix's lithographs on Faust were published in Paris as a rare large-format folio. For more than a century, these drawings remained virtually unknown. When seeing Delacroix's drawings for his masterwork, 76-year-old Goethe wrote to his good friend Johann Peter Eckermann: "The more perfect image of such an artist forces us to think about the situations as well as he has though them himself. I must now admit that M. Delacroix has surpassed my own conception in certain scenes!