Design for a Wall with Roundel with Virgin and Child and Infant Saint John the Baptist, Flanked by Putti Standing on Pedestals. Verso: Fragment of Four Concentric Rectangles
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
One of 34 sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
This sheet was once part of the Cesare da Sesto album, and formerly associated with four anonymous drawings that were placed immediately after it in the bound collection.1 It does not, however, agree with the homogenous style of this group of drawings, in which the figures are more abstracted and drawn with a lighter and looser pen line. Inv. II, 26a-29a also differ in content – they record existing works, particularly grotesques, and include inscriptions noting the locations of their sources.
Footnotes:
- Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. II, 26a, 27a, 28a, 29a.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.