Sketch for a Ceiling Fresco

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1740

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti da Imola (Italian, 1692–1768)

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Giovanni Domenico Ferretti
Title: Sketch for a Ceiling Fresco
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1735–1745
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.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Edward and Inge Maser Collection in honor of Eloise W. Martin
Reference Number: 2008.425
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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.

Detroit Institute of Arts, The Twilight of the Medici: Late Baroque Art in Florence, 1670–1743, 27 March–2 June, 1974, no. 133; traveled to Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 28 June-30 September, 1974.

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

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