 He died in Vienna in 1663.Art historian Pier Giorgio Pasini says Cagnacci's art "was highly appreciated, as is demonstrated by contemporary eulogies (Mazzoni, and Martinioni in Sansovino) and by the summons (c. 1660) to Vienna to be court painter to Emperor Leopold I".His work remained popular in the 18th century, but subsequently fell into obscurity until reassessed by modern critics.