The Holy Family with the Infant St. John the Baptist and an Angel

Inscription: Annotated in graphite at lower right: Cesare da Sesto; in pen and brown ink at lower border of old mount: Cesare da Sesto

Marking: Stamped in black ink at lower right: [collector's mark of Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092)] Pasted on lower part of former mat: [label of the New York-based dealer Richard Ederheimer.]

Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes) (Dutch, British); Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (British); Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (British), by 1772 (was in Pembroke volume XU.2., dated 24 Nov. 1772); by descent to Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (British); Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, London, July 5–6, 9–10, 1917, lot 401; Junius Spencer Morgan (American); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York (American), February 18, 1921, lot 61; Richard Ederheimer (American)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Leonardo da Vinci and His Followers in the Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 5–June 7, 1981.

Sandford Arthur Strong Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. London, 1900, part I, no. 5, repr. (as Cesare da Sesto).

Hermann Warner Williams, Jr. "A Gift of Prints and Drawings: The Drawings." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 35, no. 8, New York, August 1940, pp. 156-157.

Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, Vol. 1, no. 13, repr.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, p. 58, no. 45, repr.

Annalisa Perissa Torrini "Considerazioni su Cesare da Sesto nel periodo romano." Bollettino d'Arte. vol. 22, 1983, pp. 75-96.

Annalisa Perissa Torrini "Cesare da Sesto: The Drawings in Venice." in Leonardo & Venice. Exh. cat. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. Ed. by Pietro C. Marani, and Giovanna Nepi Sciré, Milan, 1992, pp. 404-405 and note 17.

Marco Carminati Cesare da Sesto, 1477 - 1523. Milan, 1994, p. 241, no. D17, repr.

Olga Pujmanová et al. Italian Painting c. 1330–1550: I. National Gallery in Prague, II. Collections in the Czech Republic; Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Prague, 2008, p. 257, under no. 163.