Workshop of Pietro da Cortona, probably Ciro Ferri (Rome 1634 – Florence 1689)
40.5 x 42 cm
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Provenance
Estate of James Isidor Kaiser, Copenhagen-Hamburg
Private collection, France
Saint Bibiana, a Roman virgin, is bound to a column and scourged by two executioners while Roman magistrates look on. An angel descends from heaven holding the martyr’s crown and palm.
It's a large modello shown to a patron or used as a cartoon for an engraving; its dimensions match the plate etched by Robert van Audenaerde (before 1699).
Inscriptions and stamps from collections, and traces of a sketch (on the reverse).
Literature
– P. da Cortona, fresco Flagellatio S. Bibianae, Santa Bibiana, Rome (1624‑26): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Bibiana– C. Ferri, The Martyrdom of St. Bibiana, drawing, Princeton University Art Museum: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/5387
– R. van Audenaerde after Cortona, engraving Martyrdom of St. Bibiana, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/693942
– ICCD, catalogue no. 0300047327: https://catalogo.cultura.gov.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0300047327
– J. M. Merz, Ciro Ferri and the Roman Baroque, Milan 2013, pp. 148‑151.
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