Mephistopheles in the Air - Eugene Delacroix Art Print
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Eugène Delacroix let the Devil loose over a Gothic city in 1828. Mephistopheles in the Air opens his suite of seventeen lithographs for Goethe’s Faust, printed in Paris by Charles Motte beside Albert Stapfer’s French translation. Fresh from the Prologue in Heaven, the tempter drops through storm cloud with a wager in his teeth.
Look at the body. The nude hangs mid-stride. Thigh and calf carry lamp-black hatching, wrestler-heavy, above taloned feet that touch only vapor. His profile juts beneath a pronged hood, lips peeled back in a satanic leer. Raptor wings beat the graphite haze into ragged streaks.
Greasy lithographic crayon packs the torso in soot black, each muscle dragged across the stone’s grain until anatomy reads as weather. Feathered pinions scissor behind a horned cap. A clawed hand rakes ahead of him.
Far below, spires prick a half-sunk moon. A cross-topped tower sleeps in ash gray silhouette beneath him. French Romanticism rarely laughed this hard. This vintage art print brings the laugh indoors, a winged demon forever choosing which chimney to visit first.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
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1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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