Lot Essay
In an English frame of c.1780
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Provenance
Acquired, or commissioned, by Henry Blundell in Florence in 1777, and by inheritance
Literature
Ince Catalogue, 1803, p.216, no.XVIII, 'A Holy Family. A copy by Mr. Smith, in 1777, from that beautiful picture by Raphael, in the Pitti palace at Florence, known by the name of Madonna della Sedile. The characters in this picture are so fine, that there are numberless copies of it'