Tasso Contemplating Beauty

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Artist: Tommaso Minardi (Italian, Faenza 1787–1871 Rome)
Date: 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)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1992
Accession no.: 1992.335

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.