Sculpted Female Head
Ciro Ferri
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
24.8 × 18.7 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82135
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...