# Charity, in Guido Reni

Guido Reni painted this in about 1630, aged about 50. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A young woman nurses an infant while other children gather around her, the traditional personification of Charity, greatest of the three theological virtues.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1630
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 54 x 41 3/4 in. (137.2 x 106 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974.348
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Guido Reni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/guido-reni), Italian, 1575–1642

Reni trained in Bologna, first with Denys Calvaert and then at the Carracci academy, and spent the early 1600s in Rome, where his fresco Aurora won wide fame.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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