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One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Recto: Cf. Cesare da Sesto, A Satyr Embracing a Nymph; a Running Figure, pen and brown ink with red chalk, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. F. 265 inf. 83).
Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "Afare azuro alume salegenie (?)/et affiro [zaffiro?] forte"; this probably alludes to a formula for mixing color. Above, inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "5". Verso: Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "6".
Watermark: Possibly an oval or building.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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, 31-32.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 248-49, D24-25, repr.