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In the eighteenth century this painting was attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco, and later to a member of the Bassano family. Since 1951 the authorship of El Greco is universally accepted. However, this picture owes a great deal to the nocturnal paintings of the Bassano.
According to the X-radiograph the upper part of the canvas was completely repainted, and the canvas has been cropped at the top.
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