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Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Study of a Woman and Child, possibly Venus and Cupid. Verso: Study of a Woman
ca. 1508-1512
Pen and brown ink; pen and brown ink over red chalk on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink over red chalk.
7 7/16 x 4 1/4 inches (189 x 108 mm, max. dimensions)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
II, 65
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One of thirty four sixteenth-century Italian drawings formerly mounted in a nineteenth-century album, the Cesare da Sesto Album.
According to Carminati, the recto resembles a Cesare da Sesto drawing in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Cod F. 265 inf. N. 83).
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, 65.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 282-283, D60-61, repr.
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