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Since the eighteenth century this oval canvas was attributed to Francesco Albani. However, although the style is indebted to Albani, whose classicising art was greatly admired in seventeenth-century France, the painting is by the hand of a French artist, a student of Pierre Mignard or a member of his circle.
The painting can be related to Mignard's cupola fresco in the Val-de-Grâce, Paris.
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