Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Studies of Saint Lucy, Various Figures, a Grotesque and a Cat. Verso (II, 44): Studies of Five Figures and Two Grotesques

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and brown ink over black chalk; verso: pen and brown ink.

7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (191 x 142 mm)

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

II, 43 (recto) - II, 44 (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), the same study of Saint Lucy is found on Cesare da Sesto's drawing in the Louvre (inv. n. 6783 recto).

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 17. Verso: Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink, 18.

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, 43-44.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 260-261, D36-37, repr.

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