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Cesare da Sesto
1477-1523
Various Figure Studies. Verso: Study of the Baptism of Christ and View of a Castle
ca. 1508-1512
Pen and brown ink over red chalk, inscribed lines (lower right figure);pen and brown ink on laid paper; verso: pen and brown ink over red chalk (architecture); pen and brown ink (figure)..
7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches (182 x 129 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
II, 59 (recto) - II, 60 (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.
Inscription:
Inscribed at upper left in pen and brown ink, "33".
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, 59-60.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 276-277, D52-53, repr.
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