Dante's Vision of Mathilda Gathering Flowers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1855

Bibliography

◦ Marillier, DGR: An Illustrated Memorial, 66-67.

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 34 (no. 72).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

This is one of the two pictures that DGR made for Ruskin in 1855 to illustrate the Purgatorio (see commentary for Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah ). The present location of the finished watercolour is not known.

Literary

The picture illustrates Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII. 37ff.—Dante's encounter with Mathida gathering flowers in the Earthly Paradise on the shores of Lethe.

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