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Ciro Ferri
1634-1689
Fame Painting a Portrait Held by Religion
Brush and brown and white opaque watercolor, pen and and brown ink, over black chalk, on brown toned paper.
11 x 7 9/16 inches (279 x 192 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1957.7
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Design for a frontispiece engraved by Gérard Audran for a volume of portraits of cardinals published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi.
Provenance:
Hans M. Calmann, London.
Associated names:
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Bibliography:
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 98.
Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit : Institute of Art, 1965, no. 39, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 144.
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