Sketch for a Ceiling Fresco

Provenance

New York art market, before 1968; Prof. and Mrs. Edward Maser, Chicago, by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 2008.

Exhibition history

Detroit Institute of Arts, The Twilight of the Medici: Late Baroque Art in Florence, 1670–1743, 27 March–2 June, 1974, cat. 133; Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 28 June-30 September, 1974.

Publications

Edward A. Maser, Gian Domenico Ferretti (Florence: Marchi & Bertolli, 1968), pp. 47, 80, no. 89, fig. 77, pl. IX. [Corey Keeble], Florentine Baroque Bronzes and Other Objects of Art, exh. cat., Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, p. 90. Edward A. Maser, “Addenda Ferrettiana” in Kunst des Barock in der Toskana. Studien zur Kunst unter den letzten Medici (Munich: Bruckmann, 1976), p. 386. Francesca Baldassari, Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Milan: Federico Motta, 2002), pp. 167–8, no. 105, fig. 105.

Quick Overview

Artist: Giovanni Domenico Ferretti da Imola (Italian, 1692–1768)
Date: c. 1740
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 65 × 50.8 cm (25 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 67.4 × 6.4 cm (32 × 26 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 18th Century
Place: Italy
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of the Edward and Inge Maser Collection in honor of Eloise W. Martin
Accession no.: 2008.425

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.