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Dante and Virgil meets Ciacco and the Gluttons - J.L. after Gustave Dore,1900. Dante’s Inferno

Artist: Gustave Dore (All)

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Dante and Virgil meets Ciacco and the Gluttons - J.L. after Gustave Dore,1900. Dante’s Inferno Comic Art

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Signature J.L. monogram and 1900 date

Gustave Dore’s engraving – Inferno Canto 6, lines 49-52

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Title:	Dante and Virgil meets Ciacco and the Gluttons - J.L. after Gustave Dore,1900. Dante’s Inferno
Artist:	Gustave Dore (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	529
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	4
Added to Site:	12/12/2023
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I am a big fan of the illustrator Gustave Dore, so was over the moon to buy this wonderful 1900 pen & ink version of 'Dante and Virgil meets Ciacco and the Gluttons'.

Artist: J.L. after Gustave Dore (1832 – 1883)
Title: Dante and Virgil meets Ciacco and the Gluttons, 1900. [from Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Gustave Dore]
Medium: Pen and ink
Size: size 230 x 300mm
Signed: Yes, 4 J.L. 1900, bottom right
Notes:
Illustration by J.L.? of Gustave Dore’s – Inferno Canto 6, lines 49-52, published in 1861.

Dante and Virgil walk on the flat plain among the prostrate forms of its gluttons. One of them sits up and accosts Dante, reminding him that they knew one another. He is Ciacco (a nickname, literally ‘Hoggio’), who tells Dante of his suffering there, and the names of five other Florentines of noble rank who are in the lower circles of Hell. Ciacco then falls flat on his face in the stinking mud to await the Final Judgement.

Dore: Inferno is the first section of Dante Alighieri's three-part poem Commedia, often known as the Divine Comedy.
Finding it difficult to secure a publisher willing to take on the expense of producing the expensive folio edition the artist envisioned, Doré himself financed the publication of the first book of the series, Inferno, in 1861. The production was an immediate artistic and commercial success. Buoyed by the popularity of Doré's edition of the Inferno, Hachette published Purgatorio and Paradiso in 1868 as a single volume.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 12/12/2023

"Thy city heap'd with envy to the brim,
Ay that the measure overflows its bounds,
Held me in brighter days. Ye citizens
Were wont to name me Ciacco. For the sin
Of glutt'ny, damned vice, beneath this rain,
E'en as thou see'st, I with fatigue am worn;
Nor I sole spirit in this woe: all these
Have by like crime incurr'd like punishment."

Steel Shredder
Member Since 2022

1 - Posted on 12/13/2023

Marcus Wai wrote:

Marcus, congrats on finding the lines from Canto 6. Hope you like the image. All the other images by Dore for Dante's book are visually wonderful. Dante's story and Dore's illustrations go so well together!

Brett B
Member Since 2004

1 - Posted on 12/13/2023

Wow....just, wow!

F M
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 12/13/2023

Impressive

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