Mephistopheles dancing with the old woman

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Mephistopheles dancing with the old woman

Alternate Title: Mephistopheles tanzend mit der Alten
Edition: 18/120
Portfolio (orig. lang.): Goethe: Walpurgisnacht
Plate: plate 16
Germany, 1922
Prints; woodcuts
Woodcut on Japan paper
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (21.59 × 13.97 cm) Image: 5 3/4 × 4 1/8 in. (14.61 × 10.48 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds (83.1.34.2p)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach, das graphische Werk. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin. Series: His Ernest Barlach Werkverzeichnis, Bd. 2. Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958.
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