Armida Discovering the Sleeping Rinaldo

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Armida Discovering the Sleeping Rinaldo

c. 1700

Donato Creti (Italian, 1671–1749)

Creti was one of the most polished and elegant painters of the Bolognese late Baroque, achieving considerable fame in his lifetime for his distinctive, rapid, calligraphic pen drawings. This example illustrates a scene from the late-sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic of the Crusades, Jerusalem Liberated, in which the sorceress Armida gazes upon the sleeping Christian knight Rinaldo.

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Object Details

Title:

Armida Discovering the Sleeping Rinaldo

Date:

c. 1700

Artist:

Donato Creti (Italian, 1671–1749)

Medium:

Pen and brown ink on beige laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 6 x 7 1/16 inches (15.3 x 17.9 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-349

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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