WORKSHOP OF ANDREA MANTEGNA (1431-1503)

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Los 136 | WORKSHOP OF ANDREA MANTEGNA (1431-1503)
WORKSHOP OF ANDREA MANTEGNA (1431-1503)

The Descent into Limbo

engraving, circa 1475-1480, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine, strong impression of this extremely rare, large and important print, richly inked and with strong contrasts, printing with fine wiping marks and smudges of ink in places, printed in France circa 1540-45, the sheet trimmed into the subject on all sides, with some skilfull repairs in places

Sheet 415 x 322 mm.





Provenance

With Colnaghi & Co., London (their stocknumber C. 7533 in pencil verso).

With David Tunick, New York.

Acquired from the above in 1989.



Literature

A. M. Hind, Early Italian Engravings, Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, 1948, no. 9 (another impression illustrated).

J. A. Levenson, K. Oberhuber & J. L. Sheenan, Early Italian Engravings, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1973, n. 80 (another impression illustrated).

D. Landau, S. Boorsch, J. Martineau (ed.), Andrea Mantegna, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, & The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (exh. cat.), 1992, no. 67a (this impression illustrated).

R. Signorini, 'New Findings about Andrea Mantegna: His Son Ludovico's Post-mortem Inventory (1510)', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LIX, 1996, p. 103-338.

S. Fletcher, 'A Closer Look at Mantegna's Prints', Print Quarterly, XVII, No. 1, 2001, p. 3-41.



Exhibited

Royal Castle, Warsaw, Opus Sacrum, 1990, no. 11.

The Royal Academy of Arts, London, Andrea Mantegna, 1992, no. 67a.

Royal Castle, Warsaw, The Masters of Drawing. Drawings from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, 2010 - 2011, p. 110.



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