Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix (Bark of Dante, copy after Delacroix)
c.1859
Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This is one of two versions by Manet of Delacroix‘s celebrated painting of 1822 (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The other one, a more literal copy (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon), dates from about 1855, when the original was on view at the Exposition Universelle. The present freely executed color study is thought to have been painted about 1859, the year of Manet‘s first Salon submission. (MET)
Compare:
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)
Dante et Virgile aux enfers
1822
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883)
La Barque de Dante, d’après Delacroix
c.1855
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
See also:
• Alighieri, Dante | Delacroix, Eugène | Vergilius Maro, Publius