Rinaldo and Armida
1762-1770s
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 39.1 × 28.8 cm (15 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.) plate: 17.4 × 23.1 cm (6 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.) image: 15.5 × 20.9 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1974.119.4
About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann · 1741–1807
Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...