Ugolino Carpeaux Petit Palais PPSO1573, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, circa 1862

Ugolino. The subject is drawn from dante's inferno (canto xxxiii): ugolino della gherardesca has been imprisoned for treachery and starves to death, along with his two sons and two grandsons. Before dying, ugolino's children beg him to eat their bodies. Date: circa 1862. Dimensions: height: 195 cm (76.7 in); width: 150 cm (59 in); depth: 110 cm (43.3 in). Medium: plaster and patina. Collection: Petit Palais.