The Circumcision, Study for an Engraving
Ciro Ferri
1634–89
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk
Dimensions
10 15/16 x 7 13/16in. (27.8 x 19.9cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.166.2
Tags
AngelsVirgin MaryJesusCircumcision
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...