Head of a Woman (recto); Head of a Child, Study of Children's Forearms (verso)
Ciro Ferri
1634–89
Medium
Black chalk on blue paper
Dimensions
7 5/8 x 8 7/8in. (19.4 x 22.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.25
Tags
HeadsPortraitsWomen
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...