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Montaigne Visiting Torquato Tasso in Prison (Granet)

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Montaigne Visiting Torquato Tasso in Prison
ArtistFrançois Marius Granet
Year1820
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions98,5 × 74,5 cm
LocationMusée Fabre, Montpellier

Montaigne Visiting Torquato Tasso in Prison is an 1820 painting by François Marius Granet, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. It shows Montaigne visiting Torquato Tasso.[1]

It was displayed at the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon in its 2014 exhibition L'invention du Passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée 1802-1850.

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  1. ^ Isabelle Neto, Granet et son entourage: Correspondance de 1804 à 1849