Another self-portrait (Galleria degli Uffizi, Inv. 1890, no. 6856) has recently been attributed to her as well. Madonna del Sacco Irene Parenti Duclos’ Copy of Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco, displayed in the gypsoteque of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, is this museum’s only work by a woman artist on permanent view. Begun in 1779 and completed by 1780, the work is a full-size copy of Andrea del Sarto’s 1525 fresco in the Chiostro Grande of the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata. Duclos made the work for herself, but several years later in 1781 it was offered to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo for sale through the intervention of Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni, then director of the Uffizi. The Grand Duke purchased Duclos' painting for 100 gold zecchini and displayed it in the Pitti Palace, where it hung until 1863 . In 1983, it was moved to Florence’s Galleria dell'Accademia. Restoration and recent discoveries Irene Parenti Duclos’ Copy of Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco was restored in May 2011 by the Advancing Women Artists Foundation and Dr. Jane Fortune. A simultaneous restoration of Andrea del Sarto's original, sponsored by Friends of Florence, allowed for the thorough comparison between the two works. Research carried out during the restoration suggests that Duclos traced the design of the original fresco onto paper, transferred the traced design onto her canvas using the spolvero technique, and carried out the painting within proximity to the original to achieve a close chromatic resemblance . The restoration was the subject of a documentary film, Irene Parenti Duclos: A Work Restored, An Artist Revealed, produced by Art Media Studio and based on the book by the same name that was published by the Advancing Women Artists Foundation and The Florentine Press. In popular culture In 2006, Italian playwright Alberto Macchi published his script for a play based loosely on the biographical research he conducted on Irene Parenti Duclos. A segment featuring the life and works of Irene Parenti Duclos is part of the PBS television special Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence, an Emmy Award-winning program (2013) based on the 2009 book of the same title by Jane Fortune. References 1754 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Italian women artists 18th-century Italian painters Art copyists Italian women painters Painters from Florence Members of the Academy of Arcadians