Dante and Virgil Encountering the Shades of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta in the Underworld

medium: oil on canvas
department: Fine Arts
item width: 94.5
item depth: 5.5
item height: 68
creation date: 1851
provenance text: Painted in 1851 for Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-59), Baden, possibly as a gift from the artist; By descent to Maria Beatrix Krasińska (1850-1884), daughter of the above and wife of Count Edward Aleksander Raczyński (1847-1926), Warsaw; By descent to Count Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891-1993), son of the above, Warsaw, then Polish Ambassador to London and last President of the Polish Government in Exile in London; Christie’s, London, 30 March 1990, lot 465; Matthiesen Gallery, New York; Private Collection [John and Julie Schaeffer], Australia, represented by Ben Elwes Fine Art, London; sold to Carnegie Museum of Art, 2015.
accession number: 2015.9
physical location: Gallery 2, Scaife Galleries
credit line: Heinz Family Fund and Anonymous gift