An officer experiencing a vision of the Madonna and Child appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot and another monk, inscribed in a lunette

Although this drawing is not related to any known work by the artist, its shape is similar to that of another drawing by the artist, a study for a painting in the Schloss Fachsenfeld collection at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (inv. 785; see Christel Thiem, Disegni di artisti bolognesi dal Seicento all’Ottocento della Collezione Schloss Fachsenfeld e della Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, exhib. cat., Bologna, Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, 1983-1984, no. 100, ill.). The Stuttgart drawing served as a design for a sepulchral monument, one of several designed by Fancelli in the early years of the 19th Century for the newly built cemetery of the Certosa, just outside Bologna.