The Madonna and Child in Glory Appearing to a Kneeling Young Man
1655/59
Medium
Black chalk and brush and brown wash, incised with graphite, heightened with white gouache, on ivory laid paper, prepared with brown wash (recto); graphite or black chalk on ivory laid paper (verso)
Dimensions
13.8 × 10.3 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185930
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...