Man and Woman in a Landscape (Faust and Marguerite). Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802-1828 London). Author: Related author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, Frankfurt am Main 1749-1832 Weimar, Saxe-Weimar). Dimensions: sheet: 4 1/2 x 6 in. (11.4 x 15.2 cm). Date: ca. 1826-27.Rich brown ink is used here to describe a hilly landscape with a gallant figure in late medieval dress reading to a demure young woman. They likely represent Faust and Marguerite from Goethe's dramatic poem "Faust" (1808). The latter tells how a young nobleman becomes fascinated with magic, sells his soul to the devil and seduces and destroys the innocent Marguerite. Dramatic literary subjects of this kind appealed to the British-born Bonington, and to French artists he knew in Paris. His close friend Delacroix once owned this drawing and, in 1828, would create a series of seventeen lithographs inspired by Faust. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.