Design for an Altar with Kneeling Angels Supporting a Crucifix
Ciro Ferri
1634–89
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/16 x 10 13/16 in. (31 x 27.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.66.4
Tags
AngelsAltarsCrucifixion
About the Artist
Ciro Ferri
Ciro Ferri (1634–1689) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver who served as the principal artistic heir and studio assistant of Pietro da Cortona, the dominant decorative painter of seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Rome, Ferri entered Cortona's workshop as a young man and proved so skilled that he became the master's most trusted collaborator, eventually taking over the completion of major c...