Saint Elizabeth of Hungary distributing alms

The Alms of St. Elizabeth is an oil painting on canvas (295 × 202 cm) by Bartolomeo Schedoni of 1613 and kept at the royal palace of Naples.

The room of the royal residence in which the painting is exhibited today is the eighteenth and is entirely dedicated to Emilian painting of the sixteenth century. In fact, in the Hall of Emilian painting, other paintings by Bartolomeo Schedoni, one by Guercino, The Dream of St. Joseph and other paintings by Emilian authors are collected.

The work has experienced several vicissitudes throughout its history as regards its location. Initially the canvas was executed for the Doge's Palace in Parma, then it passed to Naples together with the Farnese collection of 1734 which was inherited by Charles of Bourbon. Later it passed first to the French (1799), then to Rome and only in 1832 it returned to Naples to the Bourbon museum first and to the royal palace after (1841).