Unidentified Biblical Scene (recto); Sketches (verso)
Ciro Ferri
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
21.5 × 20.6 cm (8 1/2 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82138
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...