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Francesca da Rimini

1837

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The story

Dyce first painted the husband Gianciotto at the left, dagger in hand, about to fall on the kissing lovers from Dante. In 1881, Sir J. Noel Paton urged that this damaged, heavily restored figure be cut away, objecting that it was no longer Dyce's work.

Source, The Victorian Web

Object details

Title: Francesca da Rimini
Artist: William Dyce
Date: 1837
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (NG 460)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1017
Original image: 3000 × 2395 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

William Dyce. Francesca da Rimini. 1837. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (NG 460). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1017/