Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"

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.

Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"

Feuchère, Jean-Jacques

1843

Accession Number

1996.128.14

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation