Dante überschreitet auf dem Rücken des Centaurn Nessos den höllischen Blutstrom (Dante Crosses on Nessus’s Back the Stream of Blood of the Tyrants and Murderers), from Dante's Inferno Artist: Joseph Anton Koch (Austrian, 1768–1839)

1807–8

Prints and Drawings

On view, 4th floor, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Medium

Etching

Dimensions

platemark: 15 13/16 × 12 3/8 in. (40.1 × 31.5 cm)
sheet: 16 × 14 5/16 in. (40.7 × 36.3 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2022.2.2

Culture

Austrian

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, November 27, 2019, lot 5567; sold to Carolyn Bullard, Dallas, November 27, 2019; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021
Bibliography
  • "Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2022–23), 143, ill
  • Antony Griffiths and Frances Carey, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, exh. cat. (London: British Museum Press, 1994), 150–61, no. 103
  • Otto von Lutterotti, Joseph Anton Koch, 1768–1839: Leben und Werk, mit einem Vollstandigen Werkverzeichnis (Vienna: Herold-Verlag, 1985), 404
  • Andreas Andresen, Die deutschen Maler-Radirer (Peintres-Graveurs) des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, nach ihren Leben und Weken, 1 (Leipzig, Germany: R. Weigel, 1866–70), 30, no. 21
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No Copyright - United States
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