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MATTIA PRETI (TAVERNA 1613-1699 VALLETTA)
Suffer Little Children to Come unto Me
oil on canvas, unframed
5158 x 73 in. (131.2 x 185.4 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, U.S.A.
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We are grateful to Professor Keith Sciberras for confirming the attribution on the basis of images. Professor Sciberras considers it to be a work from the artist's time in Malta (1661-1699) and will publish it in the fortcoming revision of his 2020 catalogue: Mattia Preti: Life and Works.

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