A drawing of St Francis, kneeling on a step with arms outstretched, facing right. 

The drawing comes from the Reni sequence and was accepted as Reni by Bodmer (note on mount). Kurz (in K(B)) catalogued it merely as 'anonymous Bolognese', though it is clearly in Reni's style. The attribution to Reni was reaffirmed by Hibbard (note on mount), and C. Johnston (The Drawings of Guido Reni, PhD thesis, Courtauld 1974, no. 160) identified it as a first idea for the figure of the saint in Reni's Madonna and Child enthroned with Sts Francis and Catherine, painted for the church of the Cappuccini in Faenza, transferred to the Pinacoteca in that city and largely destroyed by bombing in 1944. A later study for the same figure, closer to the painting, is at RCIN 903358. See S. Pepper, Guido Reni, 1984, under no. 127.