Nicolas Régnier

Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), alternatively Niccolò Renieri, was a painter and later art dealer from the County of Hainaut, a French speaking part of Spanish Netherlands, active in Italy during the Baroque period. His subjects include many groups of card-players or scenes of fortune-telling, saints, often largely nude, and scenes or female figures from classical myth. He painted Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene three times, as well as a number of nearly-nude single figures of Saint Sebastian and John the Baptist. He painted Mary Magdalene numerous times. Image is a self-portrait of artist.