Sketch for a Ceiling Fresco
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti · c. 1740
Provenance
Ownership history
- New York art market, before 1968; Prof. and Mrs. Edward Maser, Chicago, by 1968; given to the Art Institute, 2008.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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