Figure and Serpent from Drawings for Dante's Inferno, 1963

Not on View

Drawings for Dante's Inferno

one from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with thirty-six collotypes and a supplementary suite of seven lithographs

image: 25.6 × 25.5 cm (10 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

sheet: 42.8 × 32 cm (16 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

1964.8.1184.A05

Rico Lebrun (artist) American, born Italy, 1900 - 1964

Dante Alighieri (author) Italian, 1265 - 1321

John Ciardi (translator)

"Lebrun" lower left margin, graphite. Not dated.

NGA stamp, verso, black ink.

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