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Artist: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798 – 1863)
Title: The Barque of Dante (Dante and Virgil)
Medium: Antique heliogravure on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by a master engraver.
Year: 1883
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 6 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This work is more than 135 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original oil on canvas is housed in the Louvre, Paris.

Extra Information:
The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signaling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism. The painting loosely depicts events narrated in canto eight of Dante's Inferno; a leaden, smoky mist and the blazing City of the Dead form the backdrop against which the poet Dante fearfully endures his crossing of the River Styx. As his barque ploughs through waters heaving with tormented souls, Dante is steadied by Virgil, the learned poet of Classical antiquity.
Artist Biography:
Delacroix was the leading exponent of Romanticism in French painting. He was trained by the Neo-classical painter Pierre Guérin, from 1816 to about 1823. Guérin also taught Géricault. Delacroix first exhibited at the Salon in 1822. In style his work shows the influence of painters he had studied, notably Rubens. He was an admirer of English painting, and visited England in 1825. In 1832 he travelled to Spain, Morocco and Algiers. After the Revolution of 1830 he was favoured by Louis-Philippe, and later by Napoleon III, with a long series of official commissions, beginning in 1833 with a series of decorations in the Palais Bourbon. Delacroix exhibited at the Salon for the last time in 1859, showing Ovid among the Scythians.

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