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16th century

Design for a Wall with Roundel with Virgin and Child and Infant Saint John the Baptist, Flanked by Putti Standing on Pedestals. Verso: Fragment of Four Concentric Rectangles

ca. 1520-1535

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk and stylus indentations, on paper; roundel at center and putti sounding trumpets in spandrels drawn on separate pieces of paper and pasted on to design; verso: four parallel, ruled U-shaped lines in pen and brown ink, over stylus indentations.

5 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (147 x 135 mm)

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

II, 25a

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Description:

This sheet was once part of the Cesare da Sesto album, and formerly associated with four anonymous drawings that were placed immediately after it in the bound collection.¹ It does not, however, agree with the homogenous style of this group of drawings, in which the figures are more abstracted and drawn with a lighter and looser pen line. Inv. II, 26a-29a also differ in content – they record existing works, particularly grotesques, and include inscriptions noting the locations of their sources.

Footnotes:

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, inv. II, 26a, 27a, 28a, 29a.

Notes:

Watermark: none.
One of 34 sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right, in black chalk, "10".

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

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