Leilão Bidspirit | FRANCESCO PODESTI (Ancona, 1800 -

FRANCESCO PODESTI (Ancona, 1800 - Rome, 1895) The martyrdom of Saint Erasmus Pencil on ivory paper, cm. 31,5x22. Some traces of foxing. The drawing is a study of the altarpiece dedicated to St. Erasmus, commissioned to Nicolas Poussin in 1628 for the Fabric of Saint Peter, now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, in Rome.