Virgil and Dante meeting Homer, Horace Ovid and Lucan, oil on canvas, 37"x54" Painting was shown in the Boston Athenaeum from 1850-1869.

Studied painting at the Academi de Derouse under Sanguinetti. Contributed to the decorating of the Vatican’s St. Peter’s basilica external front end to the Vatican’s library.

ref: The Boston Athenaeum art Exhibition Index (1827-1874); Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 3, E. Benezit