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Andrea Mantegna

The Entombment, c. 1470/ 1475

Not on View

Medium

engraving in brown ink on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to and within plate mark): 29.9 x 44.2 cm (11 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.10, no. 2, State only

Accession Number

1986.98.1

Artists / Makers

Andrea Mantegna (artist) Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

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Inscription

lower center in plate front of tomb: HVMANI / GENERIS / REDEMPTO / RI

Exhibition History

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 39.

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academey of Arts, London, 1992, no. 39.

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2011: Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Frick Collection, New York, 2011-2012, as The Deposition (shown only in Washington).

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.

1985: Christie's, CHATSWORTH, London: 12/5/85, no.49.

1992: Boorsch, Suzanne, et al. Andrea Mantegna. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. London and Milan, 1992: 39 (as state 2 of 2).

1993: Christiansen, Keith. "The Case for Mantegna as Printmaker." The Burlington Magazine 135/1086 (1993): 604-612, fig. 1.

2000: Royalton-Kisch, Martin, and David Ekserdjian. "The Entombment of Christ: A Lost Mantegna Owned by Rembrandt?" Apollo (March 2000): 52-56.

2001: Fletcher, Shelley. "A Closer Look at Mantegna's Prints." Print Quarterly 18/1 (2001): 3-41, fig. 8.

2004: Salmazo, Alberta De Nicolò. Andrea Mantegna. Milan, 2004: 261 no. 2, though the accompanying figure reproduces another example of this print.

2005: Agosti, Giovanni. Su Mantegna. Milan, 2005: I: fig. 103.

2008: Agosti, Giovanni and Dominique Thiebault. Mantegna: 1431-1506. Exh. cat. Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2008: no. 89.

2009: Syson, Luke. "Reflections on the Mantegna Exhibition in Paris." The Burlington Magazine 151/1277 (2009): 526-535, fig. 33.

2010: Christiansen, Keith. The Genius of Mantegna. New York, 2010: figs. 60, 61.

2010: Signorini, Rodolfo, Viviana Rebonato and Sara Tammaccaro. Andrea Mantegna Impronta del Genio. Florence, 2010: 394, fig. 25.

2011: Luciano, Eleonora, ed. Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington. London, 2011: 152, fig. 33.

2013: Campbell, Stephen J. and Michael W. Cole. Italian Renaissance Art. New York, 2013: 262, fig. 10.7.

2013: Lucco, Mauro. Mantegna. Milan, 2013: 242, 243, fig. 57.

2017: Fowler, Caroline O. "Res Papirea: Mantegna's Paper Things." The Art Bulletin 99/1 (2017): 8-35, fig. 1.

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