Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005913The Madonna and Child in Glory Appearing to a Kneeling Young Man
by Ciro Ferri
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Ciro Ferri"; verso, upper center, in red chalk: "D 200."
Provenance
Giuseppe Vallardi (1784/94–1861/63), Milan [stamp (Lugt 1223) recto, lower left, in blue]. Carlo Prayer (1826-1900), Milan [stamp (Lugt 2044), recto, lower right, in red]. Pacini (c. 1860-1880), Florence [stamp (Lugt 2011) verso, lower left, in black]. Maria Skira Celia Mendez de Bernasconi, c. 1977 [inscriptions verso, center, in blue ballpoint pen]; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 8, 1987, lot 44 to Adolphe Stein, Paris; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 11, 2001, lot 52, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Brussels, Musée Communal d’Ixelles, "De Giorgione à Tiepolo: Dessins italiens," 1993, pp. 196–97, fig. 88. London, Douwes Fine Art Gallery, "Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein," 1988, cat. 20 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 39, cat. 14 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 39, cat. 14 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ciro Ferri / Italian, 1634–1689
- Date
- 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), incised for transfer; graphite or black chalk on ivory laid paper (verso)
- Dimensions
- 13.8 × 10.3 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.938
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