D`APRÈS ANDREA MANTEGNA (ISOLA MANTEGNA 1431-1506 MANTOUE) - photo 1

D`APRÈS ANDREA MANTEGNA (ISOLA MANTEGNA 1431-1506 MANTOUE)

Lot 2
18.05.2022 14:30UTC +01:00
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€ 10 000
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 761391
Lot 2 | D'APRÈS ANDREA MANTEGNA (ISOLA MANTEGNA 1431-1506 MANTOUE)
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 15 000
D'APRÈS ANDREA MANTEGNA (ISOLA MANTEGNA 1431-1506 MANTOUE)Vierge à l'Enfantavec inscriptions ‘Andrea Mante[...]’ (en bas à gauche)plume et encre brune21,9 x 15,2 cm (8 5⁄8 x 6 in.) Provenance Marque non identifiée ou Conte di Bardi (L. 336). Vente Christie’s, New York, 11 janvier 1994, lot 407 (comme suiveur de Mantegna). Post lot text AFTER ANDREA MATEGNA, VIRGIN AND CHILD, PEN AND BROWN INKThis sheet is a very fine and accomplished rendering in pen and ink of Andrea Mantegna’s engraving of the Virgin and Child (fig. 1). Mantegna’s intimate depiction of the Virgin, humbly seated on the ground and tenderly embracing her son, has been described as ‘the most beautiful print of the Italian Renaissance, and one of the most touching depictions of the Virgin and Child in the history of art’ (D. Landau, in Andrea Mantegna, exhib. cat., London, Royal Academy, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, no. 48).Mantegna’s invention has been highly admired since its creation. Numerous painted copies of the composition are known (see G. Agosti, Su Mantegna I, Milan, 2005, pp. 403-404, note 28) and recently Lionello Puppi has proposed to identify a version finely executed with pen and ink and tempera on parchment in private collection as by Mantegna himself (Un Mantegna da scoprire. La Madonna della tenerezza, exhib. cat., Padova, Musei Civici, 2006-2007).Mantegna’s print is now dated by most scholars to the mature years of the artist’s career (circa 1480-90) and, according to David Landau, it is ‘Mantegna’s greatest achievement in printmaking, and probably his last print’ (Landau, op. cit., p. 219). The engraving is known in two different states: the first state, which represents the Virgin and Child without halos survives in only of handful of impressions; one of these is in the British Museum (inv. 1856,0712.1072; see H. Chapman and M. Faietti, Fra Angelico to Leonardo, exhib. cat., British Museum, London, 2010, under no. 23, ill.); much more numerous are the impressions of the second state, which show that the plate was reworked and had undergone considerable wear over time. The present drawing, unlike many of the other known copies after the print, is a rare depiction of the image as it was created by Mantegna in its first state.Fig. 1. Andrea Mantegna, Virgin and Child, engraving. British Museum, London.
Artist:Andrea Mantegna (1431 - 1506)
Applied technique:Ball pen
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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