Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Cesare da Sesto Album [contains the binding only; Drawings are mounted separately]

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and brown ink, with some red and black chalk, on paper.

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

II, 25a-II, 67

Notes:

This early nineteenth-century album housed thirty-four sixteenth-century Italian drawings - twenty-six by Cesare da Sesto, one attributed to Camillo Boccaccino and seven anonymous sixteenth-century Italian school. The album was dismantled in 1961 and the drawings are mounted separately.

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Boccaccino, Camillo, 1504-1546, Attributed to.
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 36.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 2:26-67; Frizzoni 1915, 187-94; Meller 1960, 123n18; Stockholm 1970, no. 33; Hackenbroch 1979, 42; Bora 1980, under nos. 9, 10-11; Cogliati Arano 1980, under nos. 35, 41, 78-79, and 87-88; Pedretti 1982-87, 1:165; Perissa Torrini 1983, 80-91, 94-95; Washington and elsewhere 1984-85, under no. 22, 60; Giusti and De Castris 1985, 123; Bober and Rubinstein 1986, under no. 22, 65; Lawrence 1986, no. 4; Oberhuber 1986, passim; Marani 1987, 49-51; Pedretti and Trutty-Coohill 1993, 62-65, nos. 24-27; Carminati 1994, 242-86; Elen 1995, 289-91, no. 49; Bayer 1996, 355-56; Nova 1997, 483-84; Giannattasio 1999, passim; New York 2003, 177; New York 2004, 85.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 26-67.

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