Dante and Virgil Riding on the Back of Geryon, c. 1821

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, fragments of graphite borderlines at top, left, and bottom

Dimensions

sheet: 38.3 x 30 cm (15 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.113

Artists / Makers

Joseph Anton Koch (artist) Austrian, 1768 - 1839

Image Use

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Provenance

Henry Aceland, England; (sold, Sotheby's London, 15 November 1973, no. 110). (Herner & Weingraf, London) 1974. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Aceland, Henry
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen

Exhibition History

1980: Dante-Vergil-Geryon: Der 17. Höllengesang der Göttlichen Komödie in der bildenden Kunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1980: 101, no. 36 and under no. 37, reprod. p. 83 (Christian von Holst).

1981: I Nazareni a Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, Rome, 1981, no. VI, repro.

2010: German Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1580 - 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2010: no. 60, under nos. 61, 66, 67, 86, and 87, repro.

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

Bibliography

1985: Lutterotti, Otto R. von. Joseph Anton Koch. 1768 - 1839. Leben und Werk. Vienna and Munich, 1985: 364, no. Z 1102.