''The Barque of Dante'' is an oil on canvas painting by

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

, after ''

The Barque of Dante ''The Barque of Dante'' (), also ''Dante and Virgil in Hell'' (''Dante et Virgile aux enfers''), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from ...

'' by

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, executed between 1854 and 1858. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. The painting depicts events from canto eight of

Dante Alighieri's Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ' ...

''Inferno'', in which Dante is escorted across the

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by his guide, the classical poet

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. The City of the Dead burns in the background. A second version of the subject, c. 1853, is held by the

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. File:Dante manet.jpg, ''Barque of Dante'' by Manet, ca. 1853, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York File:Eugène Delacroix - The Barque of Dante.jpg, '' Barque of Dante'' by Delacroix, 1822, The Louvre, Paris

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1858 paintings Paintings by Édouard Manet Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Paintings based on works by Dante Alighieri Hell in popular culture Cultural depictions of Dante Alighieri Cultural depictions of Virgil Maritime paintings Works based on Inferno (Dante) {{19C-painting-stub