Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Architectural Study. Verso: Various Studies

Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523

Architectural Study. Verso: Various Studies

ca. 1508-1512
3 1/2 x 4 3/16 inches (88 x 105 mm)
Pen and dark brown ink; verso: pen and brown ink; legs in red chalk.
II, 31a (recto, verso)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
This drawing [f. 31] is among twenty-six drawings on twenty-four leaves formerly mounted in an early nineteenth-century album bound in brown calf, with gold and blind tooling. The album contains 34 drawings, of which 24 are by Cesare da Sesto, as well as a series of ten smaller leaves by another sixteenth-century Italian hand(s). The album has since been dismantled and the leaves mounted separately.
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso: Inscribed in upper right corner in pen and brown ink, 39.
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, 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.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 285, D63-64, repr. Not published in Fairfax Murray.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department