Nach der Dantebarke Delacroix
Original stamp signed etching with aquatint, 1921.
The image is inspired by Delacroix's The Barque of Dante.
Printed in a small edition of 200 for the German Expressionist portfolio Ganymed. Published by R. Piper & Co., Marées-Gesellschaft, Munich.
The image is inspired after Delacroix’s painting The Barque of Dante, 1822. A man stands in the background pondering the scene in front, maybe a memory or dream but the scene is one of Hell. 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.
Max Slevogt was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.
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Original stamp signed etching with aquatint, 1921.
The image is inspired by Delacroix's The Barque of Dante.
Printed in a small edition of 200 for the German Expressionist portfolio Ganymed. Published by R. Piper & Co., Marées-Gesellschaft, Munich.
The image is inspired after Delacroix’s painting The Barque of Dante, 1822. A man stands in the background pondering the scene in front, maybe a memory or dream but the scene is one of Hell. 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.
Max Slevogt was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.
