Art, literature & history
Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy"
1843
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 42.3 x 36.1 cm (16 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.128.14
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques Feuchère. Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy". Jean-Jacques Feuchère; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques_Feuch%C3%A8re,_Dante_Meditating_on_the_%22Divine_Comedy%22,_1843,_NGA_91288.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Dante Meditating on the "Divine Comedy" — Jean-Jacques Feuchère. 1843.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash and watercolor over graphite, heightened with white gouache, on 3 joined sheets of laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 42.3 x 36.1 cm (16 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.128.14. Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.