A Bird Perched on a Branch with Fruit, 1460s (?)

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 10.5 × 11.5 cm (4 1/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1976.33.1

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Senior [1665-1745], London (Lugt 2183); Thomas Philipe [d. c. 1817], London; sold 1808 to William Roscoe [1753-1831], Liverpool; Winstanley, Liverpool, 25 September 1816, 298; William Dyce [1806-1864], Edinburgh and London; John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London (Lugt 1433); sold c. 1860 to John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; given before 1876 to A.E. Gathrone-Hardy [1845-1918], Newbury; by descent; Sotheby's London, 28 April 1976, 7; purchased (via Colnaghi's) by NGA.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Dyce, William
Gathorne-Hardy, Alfred E.
Malcolm, John
Philipe, Thomas
Richardson, Sr., Jonathan
Robinson, John Charles, Sir
Roscoe, William
Sotheby's
Winstanley & Sons

Exhibition History

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 33.

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 72.

1992: Andrea Mantegna, Royal Academey of Arts, London, 1992, no. 72.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 3.

Bibliography

1908: Vasari Society,Part III (1907-1908): no. 6.

1955: Tietze-Conrat, Erika. Mantegna: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. New York, 1955: 204-205.

1958: Mezzetti, Amalia."Un Ercole e Anteo' del Mantegna. Bollettino d'Arte, 1958: 232-244.

1971: Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy. London, 1971: no. 19.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 662, no. 1046, color repro.

1986: Lightbown, R.W. Mantegna, with a complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and prints. Oxford, 1986: no.187, pl. 217, 484.

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: 277-278.

1992: Hirst, Michael.London and New York: Mantegna. The Burlington Magazine, 1992: 318-321.

1993: Goldner, George R.Andrea Mantegna. Master Drawings, 1993: 172-176.

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

2004: Salmazo, Alberta De Nicolò. Andrea Mantegna. Milan, 2004: 199, 258, fig. 11 (identifying information switched with fig. 12).

2008: Agosti, Giovanni and Dominique Thiebault.Mantegna: 1431-1506. Exh. cat. Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2008: 265-266.