Art, literature & history
Tasso Contemplating Beauty
1823
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- sheet size: 10-3/8 x 13-1/4 in. (26.4 x 33.6 cm) image size: 8-1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (21.5 x 28.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1992.335
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Tommaso Minardi. Tasso Contemplating Beauty. Tommaso Minardi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Van Day Truex Fund, 1992. 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
Tasso Contemplating Beauty — Tommaso Minardi. 1823.
Medium: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over graphite. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Dimensions: sheet size: 10-3/8 x 13-1/4 in. (26.4 x 33.6 cm) image size: 8-1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (21.5 x 28.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1992.
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.