Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78) — Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78), 1745. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Vignette Illustrating Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme Liberata" (X:78)

by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice)
Date: 1745
Medium: Red chalk over traces of graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (21 x 16.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession no.: 49.19.43

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

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