Collection Details
Acquired by the 2nd Lord Faringdon at Christie’s sale of the contents of Bampton Grange, Oxon, 5 June 1941 (Lot 339).

Literature
These five paintings do not strictly speaking form a set. They would seem to be two pairs and one alone, although the subjects are all related and may represent five of the seven acts of charity. Matteo dei Pitocchi worked mainly in the Veneto as a genre painter, and from what little is known of his work, he seems to have painted mainly scenes of poverty and destitution.

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