Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Studies of a Holy Family and the Virgin and Child
ca. 1508-1512
7 1/2 x 5 5/16 inches (190 x 134 mm)
Pen and brown ink over red chalk, on laid paper.
II, 61
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, the recto resembles a study for the Holy Family by Cesare di Sesto (n. inv. 56).
According to Carminati, the recto resembles a study for the Holy Family by Cesare di Sesto (n. inv. 56).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper left in pen and brown ink, 35.
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, 61.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 276-277, D54, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 61.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 276-277, D54, repr.
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