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Design for an Overdoor Decoration (recto); Rinceaux (verso)

ca. 1670–90
Not on view
This sheet contains two ideas for the decoration of a frame in which a satyr takes center stage. In the design on top a satyr mask is being crowned with a laurel wreath by two cherubs while in the lower design, a vase decorated with satyr masks is placed centrally on top of the frame and is flanked by the figures of two young satyrs. Because only a small part of the frame below is shown, it is hard to tell what kind of frame this was meant to be, although the heavy ornament on top suggest that it is most likely an architectural frame for a door or a window. The artist, Gregorio de’ Ferrari, is known to have made designs for the interior, most notably in the Palazzo Rosso along the prestigious Strada Nova in Genoa. He worked there together with Domenico Piola, for whose family workshop De’ Ferrari also designed tombs, altars, textiles, silver, ship decorations and frontispieces.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Design for an Overdoor Decoration (recto); Rinceaux (verso)
  • Artist: Gregorio de' Ferrari (Italian, Porto Maurizio 1647–1726 Genoa)
  • Date: ca. 1670–90
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk (recto); rinceaux in red chalk (verso)
  • Dimensions: 11-5/16 x 8-1/16 in. (28.8 x 20.4 cm)
  • Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.95.9
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Ornamental Design for a Wall Monument Surmounted by a Balustrade with Human Figures, Angels Holding Garlands and Draperies (recto and verso), Gregorio de' Ferrari Italian, Brush and white gouache over black chalk on gray prepared paper (recto and verso)
Ornamental Design for a Wall Monument Surmounted by a Balustrade with Human Figures, Angels Holding Garlands and Draperies (recto and verso)
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Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple, Gregorio de' Ferrari Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on blue-gray paper
Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple
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Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem, Gregorio de' Ferrari Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Study for Emperor Heraclius Carrying the Cross into Jerusalem
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