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Provenance
Acquired by Henry Blundell before 1803, and by inheritance
Literature
Ince Catalogue, 1803, p.246, no.CXXV, 'Charity by Romanelli, who was a great favorite of his master, Pietro Cortona, and whose works are in great esteem. This, and the above three oval pictures (see the note to the previous lot), were an order given to Pietro Cortona, by a nobleman at Rome; but he, being engaged in some other great works, only painted one of them, and entrusted the execution of the others, from his own designs, to some of his scholars. These were afterwards retouched by himself'