Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1981.

Exhibition History

1997

Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 42

2007

Italian Renaissance Prints from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 6 March 2007 - 6 May 2007, cat. no. 13

2009

Iconomorphosis: Selected Graphics from the NMWA Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 2009 - 16 August 2009, cat. no. 100

2011

The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 3 September 2011 - 10 October 2011, cat. no. 59, repr.

Bibliography

1816

Ottley, William Young. An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving: upon Copper and in Wood, with an Account of Engravers and their Works, from the Invention of Chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the Time of Marc' Antonio Raimondi. vol. 2, London, John and Arthur Arch by J. McCreery, 1816, pp. 507-508.

1864

Passavant, Johann David. Le Peintre Graveur. vol. 5, Leipzig, R. Weigel, 1864, p. 77, no. 17.

1902

Kristeller, Andrea. Andrea Mantegna. Berlin, Cosmos, 1902, pp. 414ff.

1923

Borenius, Tancred. Four Early Italian Engravers. London, The Medici Society, 1923, p. 20, no. 4.

1930

Petrucci, Alfredo. "Andrea Mantegna incisore". Debalo: rassegna d’arte. Anno. 11, vol. 1, fasc. 7, 1930, pp. 412-428, pp. 413-415.

1955

Tietze-Conrat, Erika. Mantegna: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. London, Phaidon Press, 1955, pl. 100.

1964

Bober, Phyllis Pray. "An antique sea-thiasos in the Renaissance". Essays in memory of Karl Lehmann. Lehmann, Karl; Sandler, Lucy Freeman; New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, eds. New York, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1964, pp. 43-48, p. 48.

1966

De Meesterwerken van de Europese prentkunst 1410-1914 (exh. cat.). Boon, Karel Gerard; Hébert, Monique; Wegner, Wolfgang; Verbeek, Jan, et al. Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 16 October, 1965 – 6 January, 1966; Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Paris, 28 January – 24 March, 1966; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 7 April – 12 June, 1966. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1966, p. 37, no. 28.

1972

Adhémar, Jean; Sakamoto, Mitsuru; Yoshikawa Itsuji, eds. Gravure d'Occident des origines à nos jours. vol. 1, Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo, 1972 (in Japanese and French), pp. 28- 29, nos. 73, 213.

1973

Levenson, Jay A.; Oberhuber, Konrad; Sheehan, Jacquelyn L. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art (exh. cat.). Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1973, cat. no. 75.

1976

Jacobsen, Michael Anthony. The Engravings of Mantegna, New York, Columbia University, 1976, Ph. D, pp. 56, 226.

1977

Vickers, Michael. "The sources of invidia in Mantegna’s Battle of the sea gods". Apollo. vol. 106, no. 188, October 1977, pp. 270-273.

1982

Jacobsen, Michael Anthony. "The meaning of mantegna’s ‘Battle of Sea Monsters’". Art Bulletin, vol. 64, no. 4, December 1982, pp. 623-629.

1983

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 16 (1981), 1983, Yaegashi, Haruki. On the New Acquisitions 1981. p. 12, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 21-22, repr.

1984

Zucker, Mark J. Early Italian Masters: Ill. Bartsch, vol. 25, Commentary vol. 13, part. 2. New York, Abaris Books, 1984, 2506.004, pp. 90-92.

1986

Lightbown, Ronaldo. Mantegna: with a complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and prints. oxford, Phaidon Christie’s, 1986, pp. 240-241, 490-491.

1989

Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1989 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), cat. no. 115

1992

Osano, Shigetoshi. Antiquity in Memory: The Reception of Antique in the Art of the Renaissance. Tokyo, Chuo-Koron Bijutu Shuppan Co., Ltd, 1992, pp. 239-240 note 188, fig. 167, note 288.

1992

Andrea Mantegna (exh. cat.). Martineau, Jane; Boorsch, Suzanne; Christiansen, Keith; Ekserdjian; Hope, Charles; Landau, David, et al. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 January – 5 April, 1992; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 9 May – 12 July, 1992. Milano, Electa, 1992, pp. 285-287, no. 79.

1993

Six Centuries of Master Prints: Treasures from the Herbert Greer French collection (exh. cat.). Spangenberg, Kristin L.; Cincinnati Art Museum, eds. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 15 January – 11 April, 1993. Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1993, pp. 16-19, no. 17a.

1994

Landau, David; Parshall, Peter. The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1994, pp. 70-71.

1994

Landau, David. "Printmaking in the age of Lorenzo". Florentine Drawing at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: papers from a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence, 1992. Cropper, Elizabeth, ed. Bologna, Nuova Alfa, 1994 (Villa Spelman colloquia, vol. 4), pp. 178-179.

1997

Agosti, Giovanni. "Su Mantegna, 6. (Lombardia)". Prospettiva. Vol. 85, January 1997, pp. 59-90, pp. 68, 86 note 72.

1997

Resonating Love and Life: European Art from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). Hiraishi, Masako; Kirihara, Hiroshi, eds. The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April – 18 May, 1997. Nagaoka, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1997, p. 73, no. 42.

1998

Stampe di maestri: cento capolavori della Raccolta Bertarelli da Mantegna a Morandi (exh. cat.). Bellini, Paolo, ed. Palazzo Reale, Milano, 16 April – 28 June, 1998. Milano, Electa, 1998, pp. 26-29, no. 3.

1999

Oberhuber, Konrad. "Mantegna e li ruolo delle stampe: un prototipo di innovazione artistica in italia e al Nord". Il Rinascimento a Venezia e la pittura del Nord ai tempi di Bellini, Dürer, Tiziano. Aikema, Bernard; Brown, Beverly Louise, eds. Venezia, Bompiani, 1999, pp. 145-149, p. 148.

1999

Lambert, Gisèle. Les premières gravures italiennes Quattrocento - début du Cinquecento: inventaire de la collection du département des Estampes et de la Photographie. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1999, p. 198, no. 403.

2001

Joannides, Paul. Titian to 1518: The Assumption of Genius. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 68-69, no. 53.

2001

Fletcher, S. "A closer look at Mantegna’s prints". Print Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 1, March 2001, pp. 3-41, pp. 30-33.

2003

Le Siècle de Titien: gravures vénitiennes de la Renaissance (exh. cat.). Sman, Gert Jan van; Bonnefantenmuseum; Groeningemuseum, eds. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 17 November, 2002 – 16 February, 2003; Hôtel Arents, Bruges, 1 March – 26 May, 2003. Zwolle, Waanders Uitgevers, 2003, pp. 30-31, no. I. 4.

2003

Les dieux comme les hommes: la Renaissance dans la gravure germanique au début du XVIe siècle: un choix de Jean-Louis Schefer dans les collections du Cabinet des estampes et des dessins des Musées de Strasbourg (exh. cat.). Schefer, Jean Louis; Château des Rohan; Musées de Strasbourg, eds. Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 7 February – 27 April, 2003. Strasbourg, Musées de Beaux-arts, Palais Rohan, 2003, pp. 85, 208.

2005

Agosti, Giovanni. Su Mantegna. vol. 1, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2005, pp. 44-45, 56, 398.

2006

Mantegna e le arti a Verona 1450-1500 (exh. cat.). Marinelli, Sergio; Marini, Paola, eds. Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, 16 September, 2006 - 14 January, 2007. Venezia, Marsilio, 2006, pp. 230-233, no. 21.

2011

The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura(exh. cat.). [Nagaoka], Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 2011, cat. no. 59, repr.

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