The Virgin and Child

c. 1490

Andrea Mantegna

Artist, Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 24.1 x 20.5 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5772

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.10, no. 1, State ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 18.

1949

  • Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

1957

  • The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 6, repro.

1966

  • Italian and Northern Renaissance Prints, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, 1966, no cat.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 46, repro.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 181.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 48, repro.

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.77.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.48.

Watermarks

Small Circle. Cf Br. 2925-7 (Nantes 1484 – Troyes 1552)

Wikidata ID

Q65018739


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