Oil on panel, 1864, signed 'J.L. Gerome' lower right, with label from Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., NY, Hammer Galleries, NY; and Alexander Gallery, NY. 14 x 21 1/2 in. (sight), 24 x 31 1/4 in. (frame).

Exhibited: The Emily Lowe Gallery, Art Pompier: Anti-Impressionism, Oct. 22 - Dec. 15, 1974.Literature: G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme with a Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 2000, no. 147, illust. p. 253.Provenance: Goupil & Cie, Paris; Van Paleanda, The Hague; Fop Smith, The Hague; Anonymous sale, Vak, Amsterdam, February 4, 1919, lot 147; Gertrude Stein Gallery; Knoedler Gallery, NY; Hammer Galleries, NY; Joey and Toby Tanenbaum, Toronto; Stuart Pivar, NY; Anonymous sale, Sotheby's NY, April 18, 2007, lot 137.Note: This painting is the second version of Dante (He hath seen Hell), both painted in 1864. According to Ackerman, the first version is lost.Gérome took up the literary subject of Dante's Divine Comedy in 1864. This painting presents the figure of Dante walking along a path", suggesting the journey taken, in the course of his epic poem, through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise."