ID 793523
Lot 136 | WORKSHOP OF ANDREA MANTEGNA (1431-1503)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
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.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Artist: | Andrea Mantegna (1431 - 1506) |
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Applied technique: | Engraving |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Artist: | Andrea Mantegna (1431 - 1506) |
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Applied technique: | Engraving |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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