As it is very quiet on DD at the moment, I will give below the episode from Dr. Faust to which this painting refers.
Otra Margartia (Another Marguerite)
"This opera of Gounod follows, with reasonable fidelity, the Faust-Marguerite episode in the Goethe drama. Dr. Faust, the disillusioned old student, who has lived many years in the pursuit of knowledge, is introduced to us as baffled in his metaphysical investigation, weary of life, and longing to be released from it. He cries:
Naught do I see! Naught do I know!
Naught! Naught!
He mixes a draught of poison and is about to raise it to his lips, when he hears a company of laborers singing as they go to the fields
Praise ye the Lord! Bless ye our God!
The world is beautiful.
"But this God, what can he do for me?" shrieks the unhappy Faust and he falls back into his chair cursing wildly. With this invitation, Mephistopheles, the fiend, makes a spectacular appearance, clothed as a cavalier with a plume in his hat and a bright cloak over his shoulder. He offers to give Faust youth in exchange for his soul. The student has known life only in theory and the appeal is too strong to be overcome, while a vision of Marguerite at her spinning-wheel nerves his hesitating hand to sign the contract.
He sees the world in its new guise at Easter-tide and at the kermesse or village fair he meets Marguerite for the first time, as she is returning from church. She is a pure and innocent girl, whose brother, Valentine, a soldier, has departed for the wars, leaving her in the care of the youth Siebel and of old dame Martha. Mephistopheles encounters Valentine and Siebel at the fair and, confessing that he is a sorcerer, reads their hands. To Siebel he says, "Whatever flowers you would gather shall wither in your grasp. No more bouquets for Marguerite." To Valentine he says, "Take care, my brave fellow; some one I know is destined to kill you"
Into Marguerite's garden, Siebel comes and leaves a nosegay at her window but Mephistopheles soon appears and places there a casket of jewels to outshine it. The girl returns from church and sings at her spinning-wheel the quaint old folk-song "There was a king in Thule," while, in reality, she is dreaming of the handsome Faust, whose advances she rebuffed in the market-place. Suddenly she sees the jewels, and is delighted with them. Faust appears and the girl confides to him her loneliness, he assuring her eloquently of his love and devotion. A strange doubt fills her soul, however, but Faust dispels it with his endearments. To prove his love, she consults a daisy, saying as she pulls out the petals one by one, "He loves me; he loves me not." The flower says "yes" and Faust adds his rapturous avowal to its answer.
She falls a victim to Faust and, deserted, she cringes under the scorn of the world. When Valentine returns, he challenges his sister's betrayer and is slain, Mephistopheles guiding the sword in Faust's unwilling hand. The girl finds herself alone and forsaken, her former associates taunting her and even the church failing to console her, for Mephistopheles follows to mock her even at the altar. Finally, her grief drives her mad and she kills her child. The prison doors close on her and she waits for the executioner's axe."