Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Studies of an Amorino Riding on the Back of a Monster with a Human Head; a Youthful Female Seated on an Urn; a Couple Embracing; and Figures of Christ and St. John Baptist. Verso: Studies of the Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist, similar to acc. no. II, 31.
ca. 1508-1512
7 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches (192 x 143 mm)
Pen and brown ink (lower right); pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper; verso: pen and brown-black ink, over red chalk.
II, 57 (recto) - II,58 (verso)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
II, 57 (recto) - II, 58 (verso)
One of thirty-four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Verso: Studies of the Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist, is similar to acc. no. II, 31.
One of thirty-four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Verso: Studies of the Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist, is similar to acc. no. II, 31.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "31". Verso: Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "32".
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, 57-58.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 248-49, D50-51, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 57-58.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 248-49, D50-51, repr.
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