Guido Cagnacci – The Death of Cleopatra – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/670765
The Artist: Cagnacci was from the town of Santarcangelo—in the Romagna region of Italy, not far from Rimini. Following his local training, he spent time in the prestigious Carracci academy in Bologna, drawing from posed models, and then went to Rome in the company of one of the great masters of Baroque painting, Guercino (he was living with Guercino in 1622)
He continued to have affairs and is reported to have been accompanied in his peregrinations