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Ciro Ferri
1634-1689
Design for a Medallion with the Coronation of the Virgin
17th century
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper.
11 11/16 x 8 inches (297 x 204 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1985.85
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Watermark: crown surmounted by star and crescent.
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Inscribed on mount, "Ciro Ferri / disciple of Peter Cortona".
Provenance:
Jan van Rymsdyk (c. 1720-1790), London (L. 2167); presumably his sale, London, Greenwood's, 29 March 1790; J. Fitchett Marsh (1818-1880), Warrington (L. 1455); possibly his sale, London, Sotheby's, 23-24 May 1882; Dr. Max A. Goldstein (1870-1941), St. Louis; Hellmuth Wallach (1901-1989), Munich and New York; János Scholz (1903-1993), New York; by whom given to the library, 1985
Associated names:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, fl. ca. 1770, former owner.
Zoomer, Jan Pietersz, 1641-1724, former owner.
Marsh, J. Fitchett, 1818-1890, former owner.
Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, former owner.
Wallach, Hellmuth, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 105, repr. (as attributed to Johann Paul Schor)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 338.
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