Dante's Bark
1850
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1850
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dante's Bark is a 1850 oil by After Eugène Delacroix, a Romanticism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Dante’s Bark shows a small boat on stormy water filled with shadowy figures. The waves look wild enough to swamp the boat any second. Shadows twist around the riders—some clutch robes, others grip each other tight. This work copies Delacroix’s bold style but feels tighter, almost nervous. The paint sits thick in places, rough where it should be smooth, like the artist fought the canvas. Check out the Art Institute of Chicago where this odd copy lives.
W. P. Wright, New Jersey, by 1876; his sale Henry H. Leeds & Miner, New York, March 18, 1867, no. 29. John Taylor Johnston; his sale, New York, December 19 1876, no. 48 to S. Colman for $750; [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; Samuel Colman, N.A., New York; his sale American Art Association, New York, March 25, 1903, lot 58 as "Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx" for $850 [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in The Frick Art Reference Library, New York]. Potter…
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix 1798–1863, March 20–April 20, 1930, cat. 1. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 244. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 188. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Relationships Between French Literature and Painting in the Nineteenth Century, April–May 1938, cat. 2. San Francisco Museum of Art, French Romantic Artists,…
Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1921 (Chicago, 1921), ill. “Delacroix’s Dante and Virgil,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 15, 6 (1921), pp. 170–71 (ill.), 172–73. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), pp. 47 (ill.), 134, no. 818. Daniel Catton Rich, “Delacroix and Modern Painting,” in Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings and Prints by Eugène Delacroix, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), pp. 5, 9, 11. “A Loan Exhibition of Works by…
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After Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was a French artist.
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