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In his later career, Morbelli concentrated on subjects of labour and life of the poor, frequently depicting the old people at the Pio Albergo Trivulzio, a retirement home in Milan founded in 1771 that housed more than eight hundred men and women by 1900. In order to carry out his work with the greatest possible authenticity, the artist obtained a room of his own there. The modest but clean setting of the women's dining hall serves as the backdrop for a touching human story that is revealed to us through the work's narrative title.
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