Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
c. 1742–45
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About this work
The third scene from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s four-part suite of decorations, this painting shows the emotional climax of the story. The knight Rinaldo has been persuaded by his companions, Carlo and Ubaldo, to renounce the love of the sorceress Armida. Bareheaded and pensive, Rinaldo has taken up his shield again and appears to hesitate as the older knights gesture toward the boat that will carry them back to the crusader army and Armida implores him to stay.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 186.7 × 259.4 cm (73 1/2 × 102 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 7 exhibitions
Provenance
- Possibly one of four scenes from Tasso made for the 'gabinetto degli specchi' of the Palazzo Corner a San Polo, Venice.
- Count Giovanni Serbelloni, Venice in 1838; by descent, until possibly 1886.
- Giulio Cartier, Genoa by 1908.
- Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, in 1912.
- James Deering (d. 1925), Vizcaya, from 1913; bequeathed, 1925.
Exhibitions
- Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1933.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress, June 1 – November 1, 1934.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by the two Tiepolos, February 4 – March 6, 1938.
- Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, November 4, 1950 – February 11, 1951.
- Art Institute of Chicago, September 19 – November 8, 1970, Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, December 3, 1970 - January 10, 1971, and Toledo, Museum of Art, February 7 – March 21, 1971, Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century.
- Venice, Ca' Rezzonico, Giambattista Tiepolo, September 5-December 15, 1996; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 24 – April 27, 1997.
- Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, Giambattista Tiepolo, October 22, 1998 – January 24, 1999.
