#Jean-Edouard Dargent

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Jean-Edouard Dargent - Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy, 1870.

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Satan in the Frozen Lake - Jean Edouard Dargent, 1870.

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Les Lavandieres de la Nuit (The Washerwomen of the Night) c.1861 by Jean Edouard Dargent

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Jean-Édouard Dargent (French, 1824-1899) , "Les Lavandières de la nuit" ("The Washerwomen of the Night"), c.1861

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Jean-Édouard Dargent -  Les Vapeurs de la nuit (1896)

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Jean-Édouard Dargent, known as Yan' Dargent

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Jean-Edouard Dargent - Illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy,1870.

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Jean-Édouard Dargent's illustration for Dante's Inferno, Canto 28

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Artist: Jean-Edouard Dargent

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The Vapors of the Night, 1896 - oil on canvas. — Yan Dargent / Jean-Édouard Dargent (French, 1824-1889)

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Jean-Edouard Dargent

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Jean-Edouard Dargent - "Geryon, get going...". Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy, 1870.

Dargent took a different tone than Doré, showing Dante and Virgil safely standing on Geryon’s back.

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Jean Edouard Dargent - Les Lavandières de la Nuit (1861)

In the nineteenth century, the belief in night washerwomen was very present in Brittany and Normandy, but it is also attested in many other regions of France: Berry, Pyrenees, Alps, Alsace, Morvan, Creuse, Burgundy and Ariège. (source)

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Jean-Edouard Dargent - Illustrations from Dante's Divine Comedy, 1870.

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Jean-Edouard Dargent - illustration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1870

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© Jean Edouard Yan Dargent