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Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (recto and verso)

Henry Fuseli · 1770–78

Palette

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Artist

Henry Fuseli

Date

1770–78

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

Edges irregular, approx.: 40.6 × 29.8 cm (16 × 11 3/4 in.); Framed: 52.3 × 41.6 cm (20 9/16 × 16 3/8 in.)

Place

England

Period

18th century

Main colour

Brown · lightness 33, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules