Margarete in Church
by DELACROIX, Eugène, Lithograph, 260 x 220 mm
The picture shows an illustration for Goethe’s Faust.
Delacroix was also a superb lithographer. He had a notable success with his illustrations to Goethe’s Faust, which the German poet preferred to versions by other artists, These are the works in which Delacroix, inspired perhaps by the satanic subject matter, came closest to achieving Gothic effect.