Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
St. George and the Dragon, St. Michael and Satan, St. Michael with a Lance and Putti with Hippogriff. Verso: Study for a Male Figure, Possibly St. George, Wielding a Sword; Standing Figure Holding a Vase, Seen From Behind
ca. 1508-1512
11 3/16 x 7 5/16 inches (284 x 186 mm)
Pen and brown ink over red chalk; pen and brown ink (lower left sketch), on laid paper; Verso: pen and brown ink over red chalk
II, 26
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.
According to Carminati, image of St. Michael on recto similar to Raphael's painting St. Michael Trampling the Dragon (Le Petit Saint Michel), 1515-1518, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (n. inv. 608).
According to Carminati, image of St. Michael on recto similar to Raphael's painting St. Michael Trampling the Dragon (Le Petit Saint Michel), 1515-1518, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (n. inv. 608).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Lionardo da Vinci"
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 (repr.)
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 26.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 244-45, D18 (recto) and D19 (verso).
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 26.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 244-45, D18 (recto) and D19 (verso).
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