Jan 23, 2003 - Sale 1957

Sale 1957 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CIRO FERRI
(Rome 1634-1689 Rome)
Apollo and Two Mythological Figures Seated in the Clouds.

Pencil with white heightening on cream laid paper with a prepared gray gouache ground. 203x362 mm; 8x14 3/8 inches. Indiscerible watermark. Ex-collection unknown collector, according to Lugt "très probablement florentine, et datant du XVIIe ou du commencement du XVIIIe siècle" (Lugt 2099, upper center recto).

Ferri was Pietro da Cortona's successor and chief disciple; he completed the painting of the cielings and other decorations that his master had begun at the Pitti Palace, Florence.