The Coronation of the Virgin

A study for a picture painted for the Jesuit Church of the Annunciation in Modena, dated 1575 and now in the Galleria Estense, Modena, A. Mazza, op. cit., pp. 188-190, this is one of the very few connected drawings by Setti. Another related drawing, for the Marriage Feast at Cana of 1589 formerly in the Refectory of the Benedictines of San Pietro, Modena, is at Windsor, A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1949, no. 926, pl. 112. The elaborate finish of the present sheet, with the use of wash and white heightening, contrasts with other known works by Setti which tend to be in unadorned pen and ink reflective of the artist's activity as a printmaker.