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Perhaps collection of Lucrezia d\'Este, Duchess of Urbino, and bequeathed to Cardinal Piero Aldobrandini; Cardinal Fesch after 1829; Lord Ward (later Earl of Dudley) by 1859; bought (Clarke Fund), 1886.
Davies 1961, pp. 459-60
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Perhaps collection of Lucrezia d\'Este, Duchess of Urbino, and bequeathed to Cardinal Piero Aldobrandini; Cardinal Fesch after 1829; Lord Ward (later Earl of Dudley) by 1859; bought (Clarke Fund), 1886.
Davies 1961, pp. 459-60
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