Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY
Lot 97 Property of an American Collector

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY

The whirlwind of lovers

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 378

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CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19th CENTURY
The whirlwind of lovers
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on light brown paper, brown ink framing lines
24.6 x 36.2 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/4 in.)

Private collection, U.S.A.

Specialist note

The present drawing illustrates the tragic tale of the adulterous affair between Paolo and Francesca related by Dante in cante V of Inferno, the first part of his Divine Comedy. The lovers are about to be engulfed by a whirlwind of illicit lovers in the second circle of Hell. In the foreground, Virgil is standing by Dante, who experiences the vision lying on the ground.