Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti

Santi Pacini

1735–90 · Black chalk · Drawings and Prints

This composition was drawn by Sante Pacini after Bernardino Poccetti's Paradise, a cycle frescoed around 1608 in the chapel of the Palazzo Gerini in Florence. Formerly owned by the French collector and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette, the sheet was listed as a work by Poccetti in the sale catalogue of Mariette's collection (1775), under the number 67 ( "Huit sujets d'une grande composition, peints et exécutés à Florence par cet auteur, dans les Monastères de l'Annonciade et autres, dessinés d'après les tableaux, à la pierre noire, par Pacini.") Other drawings belonging to this group are in the Département des arts graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Artist

Santi Pacini

Date

1735–90

Medium

Black chalk

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1966