Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep (from Dante's "Divine Comedy")

Artists

Dimensions

37.2 x 52.2 cm (14 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by John Linnell, 1821, sold through his sale [Christie's, London, March 15, 1918, as part of lot 148]; to Alec Martin for the National Art-Collections Fund, London. Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, by 1927, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943