Edited sentence: Both Charles Le Brun’s, La Colère of 1668, and John Flaxman’s line engraving The Fiery Sepulchres, appearing as plate 11 in The Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri, 1807, are likely sources for this head.Delacroix wrote that his best painting of a head in this picture is that of the soul reaching with his forearm from the far side into the boat