After Eugène Delacroix - Dante's Bark | Woven Tapestry Blanket

This oil-on-canvas painting at the Art Institute of Chicago is catalogued as “After Eugène Delacroix” and dated to about 1840-60, meaning it is a period copy of Delacroix's celebrated original, “The Barque of Dante” (also called “Dante and Virgil in Hell”), which the French Romantic painter exhibited to acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1822. The composition illustrates a scene from Dante's Inferno in which Dante and his guide Virgil cross the river Styx toward the burning City of Dis, their small boat besieged by tormented souls. Delacroix's original launched his career and became a landmark of French Romanticism for its turbulent motion and dramatic lighting; this later copy, painted by an unrecorded hand a generation afterward, reflects the enduring popularity of the image among artists and collectors.

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