Female personification of Hope looking up with hands held together and left shoulder exposed, in an oval frame, after Reni
Anonymous|Guido Reni
1800–1900
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 1/4 × 9 7/8 in. (33.7 × 25.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Lucy Chauncey, in memory of her father, Henry Chauncey, 1935
Accession Number
35.85.96
Tags
PrayingPortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Anonymous|Guido Reni
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...