Two italian drawings for San Francisco

23/7/26 - Acquisitions - San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, Legion of Honor - It was one of the finest sheets offered at the last TEFAF in March (see the article), on Benjamin Peronnet’s stand, where it obviously did not take long to find a buyer: this extremely rare preparatory cartoon for the fresco running around the dome of the cupola of the church of Sant’Agnese in Rome is therefore crossing the Atlantic once again to become one of the highlights of the graphic arts collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Thanks to the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions, which provides the funding for the acquisition, this important and spectacular drawing will therefore be visible in the United States, as was suggested with entirely legitimate pride by its curator Furio…