Greek Charity

ca. 1545 (late Renaissance)

30.5 cm 35 cm

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The subject, known since the last quarter of the 15th century as "Greek [or Roman] Charity," is based on a text of Valerius Maximus, "Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium Libri IX," but refers to an earlier legend which appeared at Rome at the beginning of the 2nd century BC, in...

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Michel Boy Collection, Paris, by purchase; Michel Boy Collection Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 1905, no. 200; Seligmann Brothers, Paris, 1906, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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