After? Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Saint Catherine c.1650-1700
Oil on copper | 28.5 x 20.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400631
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Seated at full-length on the ground, hands clasped at her knees, looking up to the sky where an angel in a cloud holds out a palm frond from a bunch he holds; wearing a red, yellow and blue costume; classical architecture and landscape beyond.
This is a painting created by taking a single figure of a grieving mother and an angel in the sky from Reni's Massacre of the Innocents of 1611 (Pinacoteca, Bologna).Provenance
First recorded in the King's Closet at Windsor Castle in 1862
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on copper
Measurements
28.5 x 20.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
44.9 x 37.2 x 5.65 cm (frame, external)
Category
Object type(s)
Other number(s)
ML add-Reni
