Figure and Serpent from Drawings for Dante's Inferno

1963

John Ciardi

Translator

Kanthos Press

Publisher

Rico Lebrun

Artist, American, born Italy, 1900 - 1964

Dante Alighieri

Author, Italian, 1265 - 1321

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    one from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with thirty-six collotypes and a supplementary suite of seven lithographs

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.6 × 25.5 cm (10 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 42.8 × 32 cm (16 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1184.A05

Associated Artworks

See all 42 artworks

Figures from Drawings for Dante's Inferno

Rico Lebrun, Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Kanthos Press, The Meriden Gravure Company

1963

Lone, great mutilated figure (plate 26) from Drawings for Dante's Inferno

Rico Lebrun, Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Kanthos Press, The Meriden Gravure Company

1963

Two flaming half-figures (plate 9) from Drawings for Dante's Inferno

Rico Lebrun, Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Kanthos Press, The Meriden Gravure Company

1963


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2023

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

Inscriptions

"Lebrun" lower left margin, graphite. Not dated.

Markings

NGA stamp, verso, black ink.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q65511816


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