Follower of Guido Reni

The copper plate is flat. The paint surface is very well preserved and beautifully intact. There are some strengthenings and retouchings between the folds of the Virgin's red dress and to the blue drape above but the figures themselves and the rest of the background are largely untouched. Offered in a gilt wood frame.
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A seventeenth-century copy after Guido Reni's The Virgin Sewing with Three Angels, formerly with Simon Dickinson in 2005.¹

1. See S. Pepper, Guido Reni, Oxford 1984, pp. 219-20, cat. no. 22.