Artist
Benjamin West (American, active England, 1738–1820)American, active England, 1738–1820
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Rinaldo and Armida
Datec. 1766
MediumOil on paper mounted to canvas
DimensionsPanel: 15 9/16 × 19 1/8 in. (39.5 × 48.5 cm)
Frame (inner): 15 1/16 × 18 3/4 in. (38.2 × 47.7 cm)
Frame (outer): 22 5/16 × 26 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (56.7 × 66.2 × 7 cm)
Frame (inner): 15 1/16 × 18 3/4 in. (38.2 × 47.7 cm)
Frame (outer): 22 5/16 × 26 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (56.7 × 66.2 × 7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Object number2020.501
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
106 Cameron Gallery
Exposé
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Department
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Exhibition HistoryThe addition of Rinaldo and Armida to the collection will enhance the Museum’s growing collection of the work of Benjamin West. It will be the second work in the collection by the artist based on a literary source, along with his The Pilgrim Mourning His Dead Ass (fig. 5). In concert with the other preparatory and finished works in the collection, it will illustrate the artistic process and studio practices of the artist and teacher.
Catalogue raisonnéHelmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), no. 227 (illustrated)
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Benjamin West
c. 1785
Oil on paper mounted to canvas
2020.216
Benjamin West
1797
Oil on five sheets of paper mounted on canvas, itself mounted on wood
BF.1985.12
Benjamin West
1801
Lithograph on wove paper mounted on the original wove support sheet with gray-brown aquatint
B.2014.8
Benjamin West
c. 1779
Black chalk, pen and brown ink and watercolor, heightened with touches of white, grey and blue bodycolor and brown wash, on oatmeal paper
2007.1461.A,.B
