Goetz von Berlichingen Writing His Memoirs

Eugène Delacroix French

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The subject of this print is based on a scene in Goethe's play (published in German in 1773; and French in 1823) that tells the story of the life of a German knight (1480-1562) who fought to regain the privileges of free knights, nullified by the emperor Maximilian I in 1495.
This lithograph is the fourth in a series of seven illustrations to Goethe's play Goetz von Berlichingen, executed by Delacroix between 1836 and 1843. For a preparatory drawing, see the work in the Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.614).

Goetz von Berlichingen Writing His Memoirs, Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798–1863 Paris), Lithograph; second state of four

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