Saints Peter and Paul in prison
Ciro Ferri|Etienne Picart
1660–1721
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 5/8 in. × 9 in. (34.6 × 22.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.4650
About the Artist
Ciro Ferri|Etienne Picart
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...