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Saint Francis Renouncing His Worldly Goods

Luigi Garzi Italian
1696–97
Not on view
This drawing came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1887 under the name of Garzi's master, Andrea Sacchi, and it was not until 1966 that the correct identification was supplied by the great connoisseur Philip Pouncey. He recognized the drawing as a study for a painting by Luigi Garzi that forms part of the decoration of the Cappella di San Francesco in San Silvestro in Capite, Rome. The painting (repr. Sestieri, 1972, p. 97, fig. 8 and Ellis K. Waterhouse, Baroque Paintings in Rome, London, 1937, p. 65) differs in a number of details from this squared drawing, but it retains the arched top outlined here. Waterhouse mentions an inscriptions recording that all the chapels were completed by 1696. Garzi's pictures were mentioned in the 1697 'Descrizioni di Roma.'

Philip Pouncey, J.S. Gaynor and Maria Toesca (in 'Le Chiese di Rome Illustrate',Rome, 1963, p. 86) mention that a preparatoty drawing for the left lateral canvas representing St. Francis preaching, is in Holkham Hall, Norfolk (repr. in Sestieri 1972, fig. 11). Luigi Garzi supplied two lateral canvases for this chapel and painted the small cupola in fresco with a representation of Saint Francis in Glory; payments for this work were made in 1695 and 1696.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Saint Francis Renouncing His Worldly Goods
  • Artist: Luigi Garzi (Italian, Pistoia 1638–1721 Rome)
  • Date: 1696–97
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Squared in black chalk
  • Dimensions: 20-7/8 x 12-5/16 in. (53.0 x 31.2 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.12.120
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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