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The account describes what is visible in the picture and the literary source it draws on, distinguishing the exhibition history documented for this canvas from the imaginative scene it represents.","text":"This is Eugène Delacroix's The Barque of Dante, painted in 1822 and also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell. It shows the two poets being ferried across the waters of Hell, with the boatman Charon at the oars.\n\nThe picture is large, and the crossing fills it. Dante and Virgil stand in a low boat, leaning forward against wind and water. Charon drives them on from behind.\n\nAround the hull, the condemned press upward out of the dark flood. Their faces and hands read as one mass of struggle, so the boat becomes the one stable point in the composition.\n\nThe subject comes from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno. Delacroix has taken a passage in which the poets are guided through the circles of Hell, and he gives it a single dramatic moment: the river crossing.\n\nThe painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1822. That exhibition is documented for this canvas, which is signed and dated at the lower right with Eug. Delacroix and 1822.\n\nWhat makes the scene legible is not just the figures but the water. The dead are not fixed in place; they rise against the boat, and that rising turns the crossing into a contest.\n\nThe dark, stormy setting makes the living travellers stand out. The picture therefore asks the viewer to read the journey through Hell as a continuous trial rather than a single event.\n\nThe Barque of Dante is a painted translation of Dante's poetry into a scene of movement and pressure. It is an oil on canvas, and it belongs to the Louvre Museum collection, with the accession number 3820.\n\nSeeing it, the visitor is meant to follow the poets into the dark water, and to feel the crowd of the damned around them as part of that passage.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"This is Eugène Delacroix's The Barque of Dante, painted in 1822 and also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell. It shows the two poets being ferried across the waters of Hell, with the boatman Charon at the oars.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"The picture is large, and the crossing fills it. Dante and Virgil stand in a low boat, leaning forward against wind and water. Charon drives them on from behind.\n\nAround the hull, the condemned press upward out of the dark flood. 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It shows the two poets being ferried across the waters of Hell, with the boatman Charon at the oars.\n\nThe picture is large, and the crossing fills it. Dante and Virgil stand in a low boat, leaning forward against wind and water. Charon drives them on from behind.\n\nAround the hull, the condemned press upward out of the dark flood. Their faces and hands read as one mass of struggle, so the boat becomes the one stable point in the composition.\n\nThe subject comes from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno. Delacroix has taken a passage in which the poets are guided through the circles of Hell, and he gives it a single dramatic moment: the river crossing.\n\nThe painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1822. That exhibition is documented for this canvas, which is signed and dated at the lower right with Eug. Delacroix and 1822.\n\nWhat makes the scene legible is not just the figures but the water. The dead are not fixed in place; they rise against the boat, and that rising turns the crossing into a contest.\n\nThe dark, stormy setting makes the living travellers stand out. The picture therefore asks the viewer to read the journey through Hell as a continuous trial rather than a single event.\n\nThe Barque of Dante is a painted translation of Dante's poetry into a scene of movement and pressure. It is an oil on canvas, and it belongs to the Louvre Museum collection, with the accession number 3820.\n\nSeeing it, the visitor is meant to follow the poets into the dark water, and to feel the crowd of the damned around them as part of that passage.","sections":[],"facts":[],"referenceSections":[{"id":"identity","title":"Identity and creation","entries":[{"text":"The painting is titled The Barque of Dante or Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822), oil on canvas.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The artist is Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French painter.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The painting depicts Dante and Virgil in Hell, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The depicted people include Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The dimensions are 189 x 241 cm (per structured data); 189 x 246 cm (per caption).","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The painting is inscribed with a signature and date bottom right: Eug. 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The painting's scale is reported as 189 x 241 cm according to the structured data and 189 x 246 cm according to the caption, so the recorded dimensions disagree in the width by five centimeters while agreeing on the height. That discrepancy is a matter of documentation rather than of the object's physical condition as described, and it should be preserved as an unresolved difference between two records of the same canvas. The work is in the Louvre Museum collection with accession number 3820, an identifier that anchors the title, attribution, date and medium to a single institutional record, so the various catalogue elements can be checked against one object rather than assembled from separate notices.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Title, attribution and date","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Description; Depicted people"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Depicted people"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Dimensions"}]},{"id":"fact_003","sectionId":"collection","text":"The Barque of Dante, also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell, is an oil on canvas by the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), signed and dated at the lower right with the inscription Eug. Delacroix / 1822. The picture is held in the Louvre Museum collection under accession number 3820, and it was exhibited at the Salon de 1822. Its subject is drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno, and the depicted people include Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon. These identifications frame the work as both a literary translation and a documented object with a traceable institutional and exhibition record.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Documentation","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact_003-2","sectionId":"collection","text":"Among the object's recorded characteristics, one detail remains unresolved in the supplied documentation: the dimensions are given as 189 x 241 cm according to structured data, while the caption states 189 x 246 cm. This discrepancy in the width measurement is a qualification on the physical description rather than a settled fact, and it is worth retaining precisely because the object's scale is central to how the crossing fills the canvas. The same source also records that the painting was acquired by the Salon in 1822 and has been at the Louvre since 1985, a provenance and institutional history that aligns with the Salon exhibition of 1822 and the work's later permanent home in the museum.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Documentation","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact_006","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The Barque of Dante, also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell, is a painting by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a French painter. The work is dated 1822 and depicts Dante and Virgil in Hell, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno. The depicted people include Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon. The subject comes from a passage in which the poets are guided through the circles of Hell, and Delacroix gives it a single dramatic moment: the river crossing. 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It belongs to the Louvre Museum collection and is recorded there under accession number 3820. The same record describes the composition as Dante and Virgil in Hell after Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno, with the depicted people given as Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon. Dimensions are stated inconsistently within that source: 189 x 241 cm per its structured data and 189 x 246 cm per the caption, a discrepancy the record itself leaves unresolved.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object identification and history","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"}]},{"id":"fact_010","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"The Barque of Dante, also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell, is documented in the supplied record as exhibited at the Salon de 1822. That Salon appearance is the one exhibition event the evidence establishes for the canvas. The same source gives the painting a date of 1822 and identifies its author as Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), and it records an inscription at the lower right reading Eug. Delacroix / 1822. The work is executed in oil on canvas and is held in the Louvre Museum collection under accession number 3820.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"}]},{"id":"archive-cf36654cbc8a6d3c0a19","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"Exhibition history and later custodial history are distinct lines in the record and should not be collapsed into one narrative. The painting was exhibited at the Salon de 1822, while its acquisition by the Salon is recorded for 1822 and its presence at the Louvre is dated only from 1985. The evidence therefore supports a Salon showing in the year of production and a much later Louvre residency; it supplies no intermediate venue, no loan history and no dates for any display between those two moments. Making the 1822 exhibition the beginning of the object's public life and the 1985 Louvre date the end point of the documented record leaves a long, evidence-silent interval rather than a continuous exhibition chronology.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"}]},{"id":"archive-cf36654cbc8a6d3c0a19-2","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"The scale and medium of the canvas are part of what the exhibition record concerns, since the structured data and the caption differ on one dimension. The medium is given as oil on canvas, and the dimensions are recorded as 189 x 241 cm according to the structured data and 189 x 246 cm according to the caption. Both figures agree on the height of 189 cm and disagree on the width. The object is signed and dated at the lower right. Any account of how the work appeared at the Salon de 1822 has to reckon with the fact that the basic physical description is not fully resolved in the supplied record.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"}]},{"id":"fact_010-2","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"The subject is drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno, and the depicted figures include Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon. The evidence describes the composition as Dante and Virgil in Hell, with the two poets ferried across the waters of Hell and Charon at the oars. This identification of subject and figures is what the catalogue metadata establishes about the canvas; it is the content of the object that was shown at the Salon de 1822, not a separate interpretive layer added to the exhibition history.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Subject and object identification","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"}]},{"id":"archive-cf36654cbc8a6d3c0a19-3","sectionId":"exhibitions","text":"Within the larger history of art, the significance of the 1822 Salon showing does not rest on an unbroken display record, which the evidence does not provide, but on the fact that the painting entered public view in the year it was made and was later absorbed into the Louvre collection. The title, artist, date, medium, accession number and dimensions place the work securely in a museum context today, while the Salon de 1822 remains the single documented exhibition moment in the supplied evidence. That combination, a dated and signed Salon entry followed by eventual Louvre accession, is the strongest claim the record supports about the object's public trajectory.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Subject and object identification","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"}]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"The object at the centre of this record is Eugène Delacroix's The Barque of Dante, also known as Dante and Virgil in Hell, an oil on canvas of 1822. The picture is held by the Louvre Museum under accession number 3820. Its subject is drawn from Dante's Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno, and the figures depicted include Virgil, Dante Alighieri and Charon. The canvas carries an inscription at the lower right, a signature and date reading Eug. Delacroix / 1822, which fixes both authorship and year on the surface of the work itself. This combination of a signed and dated monumental canvas, a specific literary source, and a national museum accession number is what allows the subsequent value discussion to proceed from a firmly identified object rather than from a loose description.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object identification","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-2","sectionId":"values","text":"Two dimensions are recorded for the picture and they do not agree. The structured data gives 189 by 241 cm, while the caption gives 189 by 246 cm. Both figures describe a large-format canvas, and that scale is central to how the work has been characterised, but the discrepancy should be preserved rather than silently resolved. The same source records that the work was exhibited at the Salon de 1822 and was acquired by the Salon in that year, and that it has been at the Louvre since 1985. These are two separate strands of object history: the painting's first public showing in the Salon of 1822, and its later institutional placement in the Louvre in 1985. The evidence does not supply the intervening provenance, and no interval should be inferred beyond what the units state.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object identification","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-3","sectionId":"values","text":"The working insurance estimate supplied for this canvas is a calculated range of US$30 million to US$80 million, recorded as a working calculation generated on 2026-10-16. The methodology is explicit about its own limits. It begins from a generic high-value institutional masterpiece baseline for a firmly attributed, museum-held, large-format Delacroix of major historical significance, then applies conservative uplift for scale, prominence, and two additional conditions: that the work is not on view, and that it is in a national collection. The estimate was derived from the confirmed artwork context and supplied excerpts alone. No auction records, private insurance files, or comparable sales were available in the supplied material, and none were invented. Because public market transactions for works of this rank are essentially absent, the range is deliberately wide to support manual review and is described as requiring refinement by a qualified appraiser with access to museum and market records.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-4","sectionId":"values","text":"The estimate carries a qualification that governs how it may be used: it is a model-generated working range for manual review only, not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. It is not to be used for coverage, lending, tax, or transactional purposes without review by a qualified professional. The range is broad and conservative precisely because no current market data, comparable sales, or institutional insurance data was supplied or accessed. A further condition embedded in the methodology is the statement that the work is not on view, which distinguishes the object's present display status from its documented Salon exhibition of 1822 and its Louvre placement since 1985.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-5","sectionId":"values","text":"Read together, the descriptive and valuation units describe an object whose importance is asserted on historical rather than market grounds. Delacroix's canvas is identified as a large-scale, pivotal work of French Romanticism, signed and dated 1822, based on Dante's Inferno, shown at the Salon of 1822, acquired by the Salon that year, and held at the Louvre since 1985 under accession number 3820. That cluster of attributes, attribution, date, source text, exhibition, acquisition, and collection, is what the valuation methodology treats as the basis for a high-value institutional baseline. The monetary range is therefore a downstream inference from documented art-historical facts, not an independent record of the work's worth, and it should be read as the weakest and most revisable element in this account.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Recorded values","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"timeline":[{"id":"timeline-548fd81310e37ce6a053","date":"1822","text":"The painting is acquired by the Salon and exhibited at the Salon de 1822.","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Exhibition history"}]},{"id":"timeline-03a950ae860ef90ebdf0","date":"1985","text":"The painting has been at the Louvre since 1985.","sourceIds":["source-1"],"citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object history"}]}],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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