Dante et Virgile aux enfers (1822)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Dante et Virgile aux enfers, dit aussi La Barque de Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell, or The Barque of Dante)
1822
Oil on canvas, 189 x 241.5 cm
Musée du LouvreParis

Purchased by the Directorate of the Royal Museums at the Salon of 1822 (n°309), on July 16, 1822 for 2,000 francs; exhibited at the Luxembourg Museum during Delacroix‘s lifetime; returned to the Louvre Museum in November 1874. (Louvre)

Entrance: Collection of Louis XVIII
Acquisition date: 07/16/1822 (purchase at the Salon)
Owned by: State
Held by: Louvre Museum, Department of Paintings

Compare:

La Barque de Dante, d'après Delacroix (c. 1855)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix
c.1855
Musée des Beaux-ArtsLyon

 

 

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix
c.1859
Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York

 

 

See also:

• Alighieri, Dante (1265–1321) | Louis XVIII (1755-1824) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (70 BC–19 BC)