TitleHercules and Antaeus
NamesMantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506 (Printmaker)
CollectionItalian old master prints
Dates / OriginDate Created: 1500 (Approximate)
Library locationsThe Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print CollectionShelf locator: MERC
GenresPrints
NotesBibliography: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre graveur (Vienna: J. V. Degen, 1803-1821): vol. XII; vol. XIII, pp. 222-243.
Comments: 21 vols. Reprint. Leipzig: Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1854-1876. Reprint. Würzburg: n.p., 1920-1922 (not seen). Reprint (21 vols. in 4). Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1970 (not seen). Reprint (22 vols. in 4). Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1982 (not seen). See also [B. Ill.].
Entries: 23 prints by, 2 rejected prints. Pre-metric. Inscriptions. States. Described. Copies mentioned. See also Chiaroscuro Woodcuts.
Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des gravures toutes les nations, dans lequel sont décrites les estampes rares, précieuses et intéressantes avec l'indication de leurs différents états et des prix auxquels ces estampes ont été portées dans les ventes publiques s nations, dans lequel sont décrites les estampes rares, précieuses et intéressantes avec l'indication de leurs différents états et des prix auxquels ces estampes ont été portées dans les ventes publiques (Paris: Émile Bouillon, 1854-1888): vol. 2, pp. 596-597.
Comments: 4 vols. Reprint (4 vols. in 2). Amsterdam: G. W. Hissink, 1970. Due to inaccuracies and inconsistent cataloguing, monogrammists and "Masters of" cited by Le Blanc have not been indexed into the Print Council Index.
Entries: 20. Paper fold measure.
"Beitrag zur Kupferstichkunde." Naumanns Archiv für die zeichnenden Künste mit besonderer Beziehung auf Kupfer stecher- und Holzschneidekunst und ihre Geschichte...hrsg. von Dr. Robert Naumann 6 (1860): 220-222.
Entries: Additional information to [B.].
Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sure bois, sur métal et au burin jusque vers la fin du XVI. siècle, l'histoire du nielle avec complément de la partie descriptive de l'essai sur les nielles du Duchesne ainé, et un catalogue supplementaire aux estampes du XV. et XVI. siècle du peintre-graveur de Adam Bartsch (Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864): vol. V, pp. 73-79.
Comments: 6 vols. Reprint (6 vols. in 3). New York: Burt Franklin, 1966 (not seen).
Entries: 1 print by (additional to [B.]), 2 rejected prints. Pre-metric. Inscriptions. States. Described. Located. Copies mentioned. Additional information to [B.].
Amand-Durand, -----, Georges Duplessis. Oeuvre de A. Mantegna reproduit et publié par Amand-Durand; texte par Georges Deplessis (Paris: Amand-Durand, 1878).
Entries: 26. Inscriptions. States. Described. Illustrated.
Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna (Berlin: Cosmos Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1902).
Comments: English ed. London: Longmans Green and Co., 1901.
Entries: 7 prints by, 20 doubtful prints. Millimeters. States. Located (selection). Bibliography for each entry. Questions of attribution discussed; copies and related drawings identified.
Knapp, Fritz. Andrea Mantegna, des Meisters Gemälde und Kupferstiche in 200 Abbildungen Klassiker der Kunst (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1910).
Entries: unnumbered, pp. 130-145, prints by and after. Millimeters. Illustrated.
Borenius, Tancred. Four early Italian engravers (London: Medici Society, 1923).
Entries: 7 prints by, 27 prints "school of." Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Illustrated. Located. Copies mentioned.
Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian engraving, a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1938-1948): vol. V, pp. 3-31.
Comments: 7 vols. Reprint. (Nendeln, Lichtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1970), not seen.
Entries: 7 prints by, 20 after. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Illustrated. Located. Copies mentioned.
Tietze-Conrat, Erika. Mantegna; paintings, drawings, engravings (London: Phaidon, 1955).
Entries: 14 (all considered "school of Mantegna"). Inches. Millimeters. Described. Illustrated.
Palazzo ducale (Mantua), Amalia Mezetti (compiler). Andrea Mantegna, catalogo della mostra (Venice: Neri Pozza, 1961).
Entries: 22 prints by and after. Millimeters. States. Described. Illustrated (selection). Located. Bibliography for each entry.
Musper, H. T. "Ein 'Etat' bei Mantegna" in Battino, Freddy, Luca Palazzoli. Piero Manzoni: catalogue raisonné (Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell und Co., 1965): pp. 84-87.
Entries: Additional information to [Hind].
Mariette, Pierre-Jean. Les grands peintres: notices biographiques et catalogues des oeuvres reproduites par la gravure, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle -- Ecoles d'Italie (Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Éditions d'études et documents, 1969): pp. 5-9 [MH-FA].
Comments: A selection from the eighteenth-century mss. notes of Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) [FrPBN], reproduced in facsimilie. Prints after Italian artists. Catalogues are extensive or complete.
Entries: 38.
Bartsch, Adam, et al. The Illustrated Bartsch (New York: Abaris Books, 1978 - ongoing 2001): vol. 25, pp. 25-64; vol. 25 comm, pp. 73-134 [MH-FA].
Comments: Multi-volume work designed to provide illustrations and updated scholarship to [B.]. Volumes indexed include: vols. 1-20; vols. 24-48; vols. 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 70, 72, 90, 121, 141. Not indexed: vols. 23, 80-87, 161-164 which all discuss works by anonymous artists. Gaps in volume run indicate no volume published as of 2001.
Entries: 23 by, 2 related to Mantegna's work. Volume 25 comm. discusses a total of 31 works by Mantegna and his school. Illustrated.
Lightbown, Ronald W. Mantegna, with a complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and prints (Berkeley: University of California Press; Oxford: Phaidon and Christie's, 1986). [MH-FA].
Entries: 8 by, including 1 not seen by Lightbown; 17 after. Millimeters. Inscriptions. Illustrated.
Martineau, Jane (ed.), Suzanne Boorsch (ed.). Andrea Mantegna (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1992) Exhibition Catalog: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts. [MH-FA].
Entries: 7 by, 4 attributed to, 11 after. Millimeters. Illustrated. Located. Bibliography for each entry. Watermarks described (selection). Concordance to [Hind].
Christiansen, Keith. "The case for Mantegna as printmaker." The Burlington Magazine 135, no.1086 (September 1993): 604-612. [MH-FA].
Comments: Boorsch and Landau respond in "Letters -- Mantegna and prints," The Burlington Magazine (December 1993): 826-828.
Entries: Additional information to Martineau/Boorsch et. al. (1992).
Citation/reference: Bartsch 13; Hind 5; Illustrated Bartsch 25Acquisition: James C. McGuire
Physical DescriptionEngravingsExtent: Plate mark: 12 3/4 x 8 7/16 in. (32.4 x 21.5 cm), Paper / Sheet: 12 3/4 x 8 7/16 in. (32.4 x 21.5 cm)Cream laidStamped, in brown ink, HST.: [H.S. Theobald Collection (Lugt 1375)]
Type of ResourceStill image
IdentifiersTMS ID: 73546TMS Object Number: 72631Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2ffcaeb0-e5df-0132-9a2b-58d385a7bbd0
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