The Entombment, after Mantegna

After Andrea Mantegna Italian
Former Attribution Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch
17th century
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.

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  • Title: The Entombment, after Mantegna
  • Artist: School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
  • Artist: After Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua)
  • Former Attribution: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 17th century
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk, heightened with white
  • Dimensions: sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (26.7 x 39 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
  • Object Number: 1972.118.285
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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