The Descent of Aeneas into Hell
Over sixty plaques picturing scenes of the "Aeneid," the great epic poem by the Roman poet Virgil that recounts the wanderings of the trojan prince Aeneas are known. Seven are in the Walters collection. The series was probably commissioned to be set in the wainscoting of a sma...
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Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, March 17, 1870, lot 464; Emil Rey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, April 1, 1902, by purchase [J. Seligmann as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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