About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Guido Reni
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Title
- Abduction of Helen
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1627–1799
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Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with brown wash, laid down on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed verso, lower left, on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Ratto d’Elena di Guido Reni, il quadro / è nel pallazzo Spada in"
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Dimensions
- 45.7 × 54.5 cm (18 × 21 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Charles Deering Collection
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Reference Number
- 1927.7649
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/54842/manifest.json