Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Various Figure Studies. Verso: Study of Figures and Grotesque
ca. 1508-1512
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (191 x 140 mm)
Pen and brown ink, inscribed for transfer on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink; right figure, pen and brown ink over black chalk, inscribed for transfer.
II, 41 (recto) - II, 42 (verso
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper left in pen and brown ink, 15. Verso: Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 16.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, 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.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 41-42.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 258-259, D34-35, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 41-42.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 258-259, D34-35, repr.
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