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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ANDREA MANTEGNA (circle of) Descent to Hell.
Engraving, circa 1475-80. 362x293 mm; 143/8x115/8 inches. Trimmed inside the plate mark, mounted on cream laid paper. A good, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.
According to Hind, "By the engraver whom we suspect to have been Zoan Andrea, copied from a drawing by Mantegna dating about two decades earlier."
We have found only 4 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years.
Based on the Mantegna painting from the Basia Johnson collection which sold at Sotheby's, New York, January 2003, for $25 million. Hind 9.
