Nov 06, 2012 - Sale 2292

Sale 2292 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ANDREA MANTEGNA (school of)
Four Women Dancing.

Engraving, circa 1497. 223x338 mm; 8 3/4x13 1/4 inches. Small 4-leaf clover watermark. Trimmed inside the plate mark with nearly the enitre subject preserved. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early engraving.

The engraving is based in reverse on 4 of the 9 figures of women dancing, probably the Muses, in Mantegna's painting of Parnassus completed in 1497 and now in the Louvre, Paris. Hind 21.