Smoke emanating from the burning city in the upper left corner dominates the clouded background of this work, which is dominated in the foreground by a serene figure wearing a massive orange cloak.
Charles Blanc described a garment on one figure in this painting as a "great wakeup in the middle of the dark," and its painter cited Rubens's The Landing of Marie de Medici as a substantial influence on it. Favorable criticism of this work came from Antoine-Jean Gros and Adolphe Thiers, who after seeing it declared that its artist had "the gift of genius." One of the figures in this work is wearing a bright red hood, while another is clad only in a deep blue cloth. The heads of two men (*) grappling with each other can be seen in the bottom right courtner of this work, while on the left a feral figure can be seen biting the title object. Smoke emanating from the burning city in the upper left corner dominates the clouded background of this work, which is dominated in the foreground by a serene figure wearing a massive orange cloak. Sinners attempt to attack three men as they cross the sea of Dis in, for 10 points, what Eugene Delacroix work depicting a scene from the title character's Inferno.
Charles Blanc described a garment on one figure in this painting as a "great wakeup in the middle of the dark," and its painter cited Rubens's The Landing of Marie de Medici as a substantial influence on it.
The {Barque} of {Dante} [or {Dante} and {Virgil} in {Hell} or La {Barque} de {Dante}]