The original provenance of Caravaggio’s ‘Penitent Magdalene’ and ‘Rest on the Flight into Egypt’, both paintings still present in the Pamphilj Collection (in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome), has been much debated by art historians. A re-reading of some of the documents has permitted the author to establish that the paintings initially belonged to Alessandro Vittrici and that, after his death, they were sold by his sister Caterina to Camillo Pamphilj on 30 October 1650. Examination of infrared images of the paintings has also enabled the author to establish that the ‘Penitent Magdalen’ was originally placed more frontally; the painter then corrected his initial design. X–rays of the ‘Rest on the Flight into Egypt’ also reveal an important pentimento: the preparatory sketch of a nude figure to the right of Mary, probably an initial idea for the placement of the angel. As regards the Aldobrandini Lunettes, also in the Pamphilj Collection, an inventory list dating to 1646 show they had already been transferred to the Palazzo Doria on the Corso by this date. The same list also mentions some missing parts to the corners of the canvases and incomplete parts of the frames, probably following the removal of the paintings from their original chapel. Documents consulted by the author attest that these damages were repaired by the restorer Giovanni delle Tele in 1668; the frames in which the lunettes are now contained probably date to the early eighteenth century.