Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"

1843

Jean-Jacques Feuchère

Artist, French, 1807 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42.3 x 36.1 cm (16 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.14

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Probably Feuchere sale, Paris, Hotel des Ventes Mobilières, 10 March 1853, no. 41); Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Going through Hell: The Divine Dante, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: JFeuchere 1843; upper center verso in pen and brown ink: Maturaque

Wikidata ID

Q64581250

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