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Study of St. Bartholomew

Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523

Study of St. Bartholomew

ca. 1508-1512
5 5/16 x 6 1/8 inches (135 x 155 mm)
Pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper; verso, black chalk; cut to an irregular shape.
II, 63

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.
Once pasted on verso of II, 61.
Associated names
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.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 63.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 280, D57, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department