Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape

1490s

Giovanni Bellini, or Andrea Mantegna

Associated Names
Giovanni Bellini

Artist, Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516

Andrea Mantegna

Artist, Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

This is a drawing of a large eagle carrying a small figure on its back, flying through the sky. The drawing shows fine lines for the feathers, clouds, and landscape with hints of mountains in the background. The detailed feathering and shading give the image depth and movement.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper, the two figures (only) incised (laid on late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century mount)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.2 × 11.9 cm (6 × 4 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.11.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Barthold Suermondt (1818-1887), Aachen; Count Grigory Stroganoff [1829-1910], Rome; André de Hevesy, Paris (exh. Matthiesen Ltd, London, February-April 1939, no. 77); Edward Holland-Martin, London (his sale, Christie's, London, 20 May 1966, no. 103, as Giovanni Bellini; sold to Bryant); Christie's, London, 22 November 1966, 132; private collection, California; purchased (via Olimpia Theodoli and Michael Miller Lucy Vivante Fine Arts, New York) by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1939

  • Exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings Held in Aid of Lord Baldwin's Fund for Refugees, Matthiesen, Ltd., London, 1939, no. 77 (as Giovanni Bellini).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 6 (color)(Andrew Robison).

2018

  • Mantegna and Bellini, The National Gallery, London; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1942

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. "Giulio Campagnola's Engravings." The Print Collector's Quarterly 29:2 (1942): p. 185-187, repro. 184 (as Mantegna).

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 89, no. A 320, as by Mantegna.

1948

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving: A Critical Catalogue with Complete Reproduction of All the Prints Described. 2 parts in 7 vols. (London, 1948), Part II, vol. 5: 196, under no. 4 (as "probably by" Mantegna).

1955

  • Tietze-Conrat, Erika. Mantegna: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. New York, 1955: 207, fig. 32 (as Mantegna).

1962

  • Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani. Venice, 1962: 214, S. 913 (as School of Giovanni Bellini).

1973

  • Levenson, Jay A. et al. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1973: 392-393 (footnote 12).

1991

  • Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 75, 79, S. 913, fig. 48 (as School of Giovanni Bellini).

  • Rearick, W. R. "Titian Drawings: A Progress Report." Artibus et Historiae 12, no. 23 (1991): 14, 15 (fig. 8), 36 note 34 (as Giovanni Bellini).

1993

  • Oberhuber, Konrad. "Le message de Giorgione et du jeune Titien dessinateurs." In Le siècle de Titien. Exh. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, 1993: 441, 493-494, fig. 11 (as Giulio Campagnola).

2010

  • Brown, David Alan. "Giulio Campagnola: the Printmaker as Painter." Artibus et Historiae no. 61 (2010): 85-86, 95 and fig. 3.

Inscriptions

by later hands on mount verso in various graphites: "Ganimede sull'aquila [sic!] di Giove"/"Giovanni Bellini"/"Collez. Cte. Gregorio Stroganow"/"Coll. Suermondt."

Wikidata ID

Q64572393

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