Rinaldo and Armida

Prints and Drawings

c. 1693

Donato Creti
Italian, 1671-1749

This delightful sheet depicts the story of Rinaldo and Armida as told in the 14th canto of Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata. Armida is shown holding the dagger at the moment when the sweetness of Rinaldo’s face arrests her in her murderous scheme and seduces her to become his lover.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Donato Creti
Title: Rinaldo and Armida
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1683–1749
Medium: Pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 15 × 19.1 cm (5 15/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marie Louise Pritchard
Reference Number: 1960.836
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Michael Milkovich, Sebastiano and Marco Ricci in America (Lexington, Ky., 1966), no. 65 (ill.).
Walter Vitzthum, “Publications Received: Sebastiano and Marco Ricci in America,” Master Drawings, 4 (November 1966), p. 185, (ill.).
Catherine Johnston, “Donato Creti par Renato Roli,” L’Oeil, 168 (December 1968), p. 46.
Renato Roli, “Drawings by Donato Creti: Notes for a Chronology,” Master Drawings, 11 (Spring 1973), p. 26.
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1B8.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” December 1979-March 1980, cat. 96, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art.

Possibly Charles Henri Marcellis (died 1864), Belgium [Lugt Suppl. 609]. Col. E. R. Lamponi (died before 1902), Florence and Turin [Lugt Suppl. 1760]. Mr. Hugo L. Loewe, Berlin [according to a letter from Norman Pritchard dated July 3, 1961 in curatorial file]; by descent to his daughter, Marie Louise Pritchard, Chicago [according to Norman Pritchard]; given to the Art Institute, 1960.

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