Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Study of a Frieze. Verso: Study of a Grotesque Ornament
ca. 1508-1512
4 3/16 x 7 1/2 inches (106 x 190 mm)
Pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper; verso: red chalk; three lines of pen and brown ink.
II, 64
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 recto resembles three drawings by Cesare da Sesto in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. F. 269 inf. n. 95a; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 83; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 84).
According to Carminati (1994), the recto resembles three drawings by Cesare da Sesto in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. F. 269 inf. n. 95a; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 83; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 84).
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, 64.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 280-282, D58-59, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan: Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London: Privately Printed, 1905-1912, II, 64.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 280-282, D58-59, repr.
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