Death of Dido

A pen and brown ink drawing with gray wash shows a woman sinking onto a raised pyre as attendants reach toward her. A winged figure descends through clouds at upper center, and flames rise at the right beside a small altar.

Look closer: A small altar with a flame and a vessel stands at the right edge, beside the pyre.

Artist

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Date

1620–40

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush with gray wash, over charcoal (?) (recto); ruled framing outlines in red chalk, black chalk scribbles (verso), fram

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3875 × 2669 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887