Charity Human Figure A talented pupil of Luca

A talented pupil of Luca Giordano

Leeds and it is likely that the same cartoon was used for both pictures

The drawing shows the right-hand half of the sea facade of the Ducal Palace in Venice

formerly attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán

Charity Human Figure A talented pupil of LucaThrough the intervention of Joseph Warton, Reynolds was commissioned in 1777 to provide designs for new glass in the chapel of New College, Oxford. The upper register contains the Nativity, with figures of the seven Virtues below. He made preliminary drawings, full size oil sketches and cartoons, from which Thomas Jervais (d. 1799) painted the glass. This is the sketch for the figure of Charity, which was based on an engraving of the antique statue of