Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850)

Charon transporting Souls, Dante, Inferno, Canto 6

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Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850)
Charon transporting Souls, Dante, Inferno, Canto 6
pen and brown ink
17¼ x 24¼ in. (442 x 618 mm.)

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Drawings by Sabatelli illustrating scenes from Dante's Inferno are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille and in the Uffizi, B. Paolozzi Strozzi, Luigi Sabatelli, Disegni e Incisioni exhib. cat., Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, 1978, nos. 13-16, illustrated. These drawings are datable to the last Roman period of the artist (1789-1794).
Another drawing of Charon transporting Souls by Sabatelli is in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (coll. F 19/2).

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