Attributed to Alessandro Vellutello

Download image:

Inferno, Canto III. Charon Portrayed Shipping the Damned through the Acheron, Seen as a Circular Lake with the Entrance to the First Circle in the Middle. Dante and Virgil Looking at the Damned Who Are Being Attacked by Hornets and Wasps; Pointing to the Entrance; Approaching the Ferry; Speaking to Charon; Boarding the Ferry; and on the Ferry. At top a town?

Pen and brown ink on paper.

8 1/8 x 11 inches (207 x 280 mm)

Gift of Mr. H.P. Kraus.

1966.12:4

Zoom image

Download verso image:

218553v_0002.jpg

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Italian School, 16th cent.

Inscription:

Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink, at upper left, "...ciauva / ma..non fur / aiui..(?)"; throughout, labelling the figures, "V[irgilio] and D[ante]"; in lower left quadrant, "Caronte"; at lower left, near edge [illegible].

Provenance:

J. I. Davis, London; H. P. Kraus (1907-1988), Vienna and New York, by whom presented to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1966.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Davis, J. Irving, 1889-1967, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Divina Commedia.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter, "Drawings for the Woodcut Illustrations to Alessandro Vellutello's 1544 Commentary on Dante's Comedia", Print Quarterly, XXXVI, March 2019, pp. 3-17
Matthew Collins, "The Forgotten Morgan Dante Drawings, Their Influence on the Marcolini Commedia of 1544, and Their Place within a Visually-Driven Discourse on Dante's Poem," Dante Studies 136 (2018): 93-132.
Lamberto Donati, "Commento ad una serie di disegni del XVI secolo illustranti la Divina Commedia", La Bibliofilia, LXV, 1963, fig. 7.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 91-92.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 150.

Catalog link:

See more information »

Artist page:

Vellutello, Alessandro

School:

Century:

Classification:

Department: