Dante in the underworld

细节

George Augustus Wallis (British, 1770-1847)
Dante in the underworld
oil on canvas
112.5 x 102.5 cm.

来源

Linz Museum, Linz, inv.no. 256, as Joseph Anton Koch.
Restituted to the family of the late owner in december 1950.

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拍品专文

According to a note on the stretcher, the present lot was executed circa 1820 in the opinion of Herman Voss.

The artist spent the majority of his life in Italy and Germany, where he achieved a considerable reputation as a landscape painter. Wallis turned to literary subjects after 1800. For more information on the atrist see Klaus Graf von Baudiffin, G.A. Wallis, 1924 and J. Ingamells, A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven/London, 1997, pp. 973/974.