Cesare da Sesto

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Cesare da Sesto

1477-1523

Study of a Frieze. Verso: Study of a Grotesque Ornament

ca. 1508-1512

Pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper; verso: red chalk; three lines of pen and brown ink.

4 3/16 x 7 1/2 inches (106 x 190 mm)

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

II, 64

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Notes:

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 recto resembles three drawings by Cesare da Sesto in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Cod. F. 269 inf. n. 95a; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 83; Cod. F. 265 inf. n. 84).

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, 64.
Carminati, Marco. Cesare da Sesto, 1477-1523. Milan : Jandi Sapi, 1994, 280-282, D58-59, repr.

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