Tasso in Prison, from "L'Art"
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 15/16 in. (29.5 × 40.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.1533
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng|Eugène Delacroix|Alfred Salmon|Torquato Tasso · 1831–1911
Léopold Flameng (1831–1911) was one of the most accomplished and influential French engravers of the 19th century, whose exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity made him the preeminent interpreter of paintings by old and modern masters through the medium of engraving. Born in Brussels on November 22, 1831, to French parents, and dying at Courgent, near Paris, on September 5, 1911, F...