Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Studies for Figures and Grotesque Masks. Verso: Studies of St. John the Baptist Holding a Bowl; Mercury; an Erotic Scene; a Grotesque; and Various Figures, possibly for a Calvary Scene

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and brown ink over black chalk; verso: pen and brown ink over red chalk, inscribed lines on left and upper left figures.

7 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (194 x 142 mm)

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

II, 39 (recto) - II, 40 (verso

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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 (1994), recto is comparable to Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. no. 6782).

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "13". Verso: inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, "14".

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, 39-40.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi,1994, p. 256-257, D32-33, repr.

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