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

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 27.7 x 23.1 cm (10 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.50.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walter Gay [1856-1937], Paris; Fritz Lugt, Paris acquired, late 1920s; private collection, New York, acquired c. 1940; (by descent to heirs, via N.G. Stogdon); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Prints 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and tour, 1956, no. 86, pl. 35.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

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.

2001

  • Fletcher, Shelley. "A Closer Look at Mantegna's Prints." Print Quarterly 18/1 (2001): 3-41, fig. 60.

2008

  • Agosti, Giovanni and Dominique Thiebault.Mantegna: 1431-1506. Exh. cat. Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2008: no. 113.

2010

  • Christiansen, Keith.The Genius of Mantegna.New York, 2010: fig. 40.

2013

  • Lucco, Mauro. Mantegna. Milan, 2013: 250, 251, fig. 64.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: B.8 I

Watermarks

Basilisk

Wikidata ID

Q75418492

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