Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Child
Ciro Ferri
c. 1665
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...