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Giovanni Bellini, or Andrea Mantegna

Jupiter and Ganymede Above an Extensive Landscape, 1490s

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1996.11.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Bellini (artist) Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516

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

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Inscription

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

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

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Hevesy, André de
Martin, Edward Holland
Michael Miller Lucy Vivante Fine Arts
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Stroganoff, Grigory Sergeievich Count
Suermondt, Barthold
Theodoli, Olimpia

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).

1991: 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.