Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Studies of an Amorino Riding on the Back of a Monster with a Human Head; a Youthful Female Seated on an Urn; a Couple Embracing; and Figures of Christ and St. John Baptist. Verso: Studies of the Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist, similar to acc. no. II, 31.

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and brown ink (lower right); pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper; verso: pen and brown-black ink, over red chalk.

7 9/16 x 5 5/8 inches (192 x 143 mm)

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

II, 57 (recto) - II,58 (verso)

Notes:

II, 57 (recto) - II, 58 (verso)
One of thirty-four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
Verso: Studies of the Virgin and Child and St. John Baptist, is similar to acc. no. II, 31.

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "31". Verso: Inscribed at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "32".

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.

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, 57-58.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, p. 248-49, D50-51, repr.

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