Dejanira being abducted by the centaur Nessos, a man with bow and arrow at right, after Reni
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 18 in. × 14 1/8 in. (45.7 × 35.9 cm) Sheet (Trimmed): 23 3/16 × 16 3/4 in. (58.9 × 42.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.465
Tags
About the Artist
Guido Reni|Charles Clément Bervic|Ramboz|Charles Clément Bervic · 1575–1642
Guido Reni (1575–1642) was one of the most celebrated Italian painters of the Baroque era and the dominant figure of the Bolognese School. Born into a family of musicians in Bologna, he trained first with Denys Calvaert before joining the influential Accademia degli Incamminati led by Ludovico Carracci. Reni achieved international fame through his idealizing style that combined Baroque dynamism wi...