The Entombment, after Mantegna

School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch
 After Andrea Mantegna Italian
 Former Attribution Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch

Not on view

Rembrandt famously claimed that it was possible to learn about Italian art without ever leaving his native Holland. Prints, which are portable and relatively inexpensive, facilitated such study by disseminating art and innovation from different regions. The present drawing is an example of an artist from Rembrandt’s circle studying an engraving of Christ’s Entombment by Andrea Mantegna (see 37.42.30). The draftsman focused on the Italian master’s dynamic figures, such as the grief-stricken mourners in the foreground, and his characteristic diagonal hatching, leaving out other elements of the composition entirely.

The Entombment, after Mantegna, School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam), Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over preliminary lines in red chalk, heightened with white on Japanese paper

Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Open Access

As part of the Met's Open Access policy, you can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes.

API

Public domain data for this object can also be accessed using the Met's Open Access API.