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This painting is a late work of Reni, demonstrating qualities of rapidity and self-assurance. At that time Reni had abandoned the smooth finish that had been characteristic of his earlier work in favor of a slightly looser and more animated surface.…

In the eyes of G. B. Passeri, a contemporary biographer, Guido Reni was "the noblest, most majestic painter who ever lived- not only in my own opinion, but by common consent.” Reni, the most celebrated Italian painter of the seventeenth century, was…