Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Study of a Putto and a Woman. Verso: Studies of Saint Sebastian, a Woman, a Putto and Grotesques

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and dark brown ink on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink; (left figure) pen and brown ink over black chalk.

7 1/2 x 5 5/16 inches (190 x 136 mm)

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

II, 53 (recto) - II, 54 (verso

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Notes:

This drawing [foglio 5] 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.
According to Carminati (1994), the recto bears a resemblance to Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Parker II 698).

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 27. Verso: Inscribed at upper left in pen and brown ink, 201, 202 or 28 (illegible).

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, 53-54.
Carminati [see full bibliography], 1994, pp. 270-271, D46-47, repr.

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