# Putto Holding Staff, in 17th-century Italy

Guido Reni painted this (n.d.). It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: n.d.
- Medium: Black chalk with pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: 27.8 × 18.8 cm (11 × 7 7/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.1737
- 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

- [More by Guido Reni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/guido-reni?hang=751) (6 works)
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