Ciro Ferri
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Martina
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ciro Ferri
(Rome 1633 – 1689)
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Martina
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, squared for transfer in black chalk;
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower center: Ciro Ferri
276 by 211 mm; 10⅞ by 8¼ in.
Private collection, U.S.A.;
with Thomas Williams, London, by 1992,
with Flavia Ormond Fine Arts Ltd., London (Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1850, exhibition at Adelson Galleries, New York, 10-21 January 1994, cat. no. 10),
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum, A Painting in Context: Pietro da Cortona's Saint Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols, 2006-7, no. 10;
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, ex-catalogue
Sale catalogue, New York, Christie's, 30 January 1998, under lot 93;
J. Merz, Pietro de Cortona und sein Kreis, Munich and Berlin 2005, pp. 226-7, fig. 241, and pp. 468-9, note 18
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