Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child

Ciro Ferri

c. 1665

Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child by Ciro Ferri

Medium

black chalk on laid paper, squared for transfer in black chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 24.7 x 28.5 cm (9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.) mount: 36 x 39.1 cm (14 3/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.19

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...

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