Italian School
Watermark: none.
One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
The Morgan Library owns a drawing by Girolamo Romanino depicting a series of studies of a figure within an oculus, similar to the figure at upper right on the verso of this sheet (1985.94).
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink: "Roma"; at lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Genua / genua (?)"; on verso, at lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Cremona in foro".
Romanino, Girolamo, approximately 1485-approximately 1566, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 2: no. tk, (as Cesare da Sesto).