The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell (La desesperación de los réprobos en el infierno)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

León Ferrari

Title

The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell (La desesperación de los réprobos en el infierno)

Place

Argentina (Artist's nationality:)

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2005

Medium

Pen and black ink on white wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left, in pen and black ink: "San Alfonso: / "La desesperación de / los réprobos en el / infierno""; verso, upper center, in pen and black ink: "lf / Colombia [?]. / San Alfonso M. de Ligorio (Naples. 1695-1787) / Meditacion-Torres III [?] / Herdes ___Cer-Friburgo 1922 / edding 1880,0,2 / lf"; lower right, in graphite: "ale 4"

Dimensions

35 × 24.8 cm (13 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the family of León Ferrari and Sicardi Gallery

Reference Number

2015.558

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