Mephisto Appears to Faust 

Eugène Delacroix's lithograph, *Mephisto Appears to Faust*, depicts a dramatic scene from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play *Faust*. The work features a detailed depiction of a shadowy room, cluttered with books and artifacts, where the devil Mephistopheles appears before the scholar Faust. The artist masterfully portrays the tension and intrigue of this seminal literary encounter, capturing the essence of the supernatural encounter with dramatic detail and a sense of gothic atmosphere.