Margaret at the Spinning Wheel (Goethe, Faust, I, 15), Ary Scheffer

Margaret at the Spinning Wheel (Goethe, Faust, I, 15)

Margaretha aan het spinnewiel (Goethe, Faust 1, 15) (museum title)

Ary Scheffer (French) (1795-1858)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1831
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 22.5 × 17.3 cm
Collection: Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands
Rights: Public domain
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

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Faust Goethe Literature Woman Young woman Spinning wheel Armchair Furniture Interior Single figure Dress Melancholy Reverie Brown Green Black White Face Hair Hand Gaze Huile sur bois

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