Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Studies of Mars, Venus and Cupid; Adam and Eve; a Grotesque; and Other Figures. Verso: Studies of Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge and Two Figures.
ca. 1508-1512
7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (197 x 143 mm)
Pen and brown ink, inscribed lines; verso: pen and brown-black ink; red chalk over pen and brown ink.
II, 37 (recto) - II, 38 (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.
According to Carminati (1994), the studies of Adam and Eve on verso resemble Raphael's Adam and Eve on the ceiling of the Stanza della Segnatura, 1508-11.
According to Carminati (1994), the studies of Adam and Eve on verso resemble Raphael's Adam and Eve on the ceiling of the Stanza della Segnatura, 1508-11.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 11. Verso: Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 12.
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, 37-38.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 253-255, D30-31, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, II, 37-38.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 253-255, D30-31, repr.
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