Dido on the Funeral Pyre

1650–1700

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of two
Dimensions: Plate: 10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.5 × 19 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 1/8 in. (31.5 × 23.2 cm)
Collection no.: 1986.1180.379
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Diamantini. Dido on the Funeral Pyre. Giuseppe Diamantini; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Dido on the Funeral Pyre — Giuseppe Diamantini. 1650–1700.

Medium: Etching; first state of two. Dimensions: Plate: 10 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.5 × 19 cm) Sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 1/8 in. (31.5 × 23.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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