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Maker(s):Isabey, Eugène
Culture:French (1803-1886)
Title:Inquisition Scene
Date Made:19th century
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Accession Number:  AC 1977.55
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The subject of this dramatic scene by Isabey, the French Romantic painter associated with British watercolorist Richard Parkes Bonington, remains uncertain. It might possibly depict a scene from Faust, in which Marguerite (Gretchen) chooses to stand trial for the drowning of her baby, rather than escape prison with her lover and the evil Mephistopheles.
EEB, 2008

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