Museum Exhibition
Going through Hell: The Divine Dante
National Gallery of Art
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
Flaxman, John
Album of Drawings for Dante's "Divine Comedy"
c. 1793
bound volume with 78 drawings in pen and ink and graphite
sheet: 42.5 × 30.4 cm (16 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.) book: 43.8 × 32.5 × 3.4 cm (17 1/4 × 12 13/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
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Koch, Joseph Anton
Dante and Virgil Riding on the Back of Geryon
c. 1821
pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, fragments of graphite borderlines at top, left, and bottom
sheet: 38.3 x 30 cm (15 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
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Pinelli, Bartolomeo
Dante Flees the Wild Beasts and Meets Virgil
1824
graphite on laid paper, mounted on nineteenth-century album sheet
sheet: 25.7 x 37.8 cm (10 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.) overall (album sheet): 35.2 x 50 cm (13 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
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Feuchère, Jean-Jacques
Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"
1843
pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper
overall: 42.3 x 36.1 cm (16 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.)
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Etty, William
Scene from the Inferno (canto IX)
pen and black ink with gray wash
overall: 25.8 x 20.4 cm (10 3/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
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9 documented works in this exhibition
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