Rinaldo
Medium
Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 41.1 × 50.1 cm (16 3/16 × 19 3/4 in.); Sheet: 54.1 × 66.8 cm (21 5/16 × 26 5/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44022
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Johannes Brahms's cantata recounts Rinaldo's temptation by the sorceress Armida, who holds him under her spell. In Henri Fantin-Latour's visual interpretation, Rinaldo leaves Armida to rejoin his troops while sea nymphs frolic in the water to the right.
About the Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour · 1836–1904
Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour was born on January 14, 1836, in Grenoble, France, to portrait painter Théodore Fantin-Latour, who gave him his earliest drawing lessons. The family relocated to Paris in 1841, where in 1850, at age 14, he enrolled in the École de Dessin, studying under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, whose innovative memory-based method of drawing from observation profoundly ...