The Entombment with Three Birds
c.1500/1504
Artist, Italian, active c. 1490 - 1525 or after
Artist
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia, after Andrea Mantegna
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 45.7 x 35.3 cm (18 x 13 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.5770
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.20, no. 11
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1949
Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.
1957
The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 187.
1985
Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.
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.79 (probably the work of Giovanni Antonio da Brescia).
Watermarks
Fleur-de-Lys in Circle with Flower Above
Wikidata ID
Q65027036