Fortune flying above the globe, partly naked, emptying a purse in her raised right hand and holding a staff in her left, a winged putto pulling her forelock, after Reni
Guido Reni|Girolamo Scarsello
ca. 1660–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 9 3/8 × 7 5/8 in. (23.8 × 19.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Miss Helen J. Baker, 1937
Accession Number
37.68.52
About the Artist
Guido Reni|Girolamo Scarsello · 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...