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The Virgin in prayer, looking up with clouds behind her, in an oval frame, after Reni

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The Virgin in prayer, looking up with clouds behind her, in an oval frame, after Reni

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After a painting by Reni. Verso is not visible as print is laid to another sheet of paper.
Engraved by Francois de Poilly (French, Abbeville 1623–1693 Paris)

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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1648 - 1680
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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