Entombment

Artist Unknown

Artist After Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431 - 1506)

Formerly attributed to Marco Zoppo (1433-1498)

CultureItalian

Dateca. 1500

MediumTempera (and oil ?) on panel

DimensionsOverall: 26 1/8 × 41 1/8 inches (66.37 × 104.47 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert Lehman

Object number45-53

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionIn the left foreground, situated in a rocky landscape, is a male figure (Christ), whose limp body is carried on a white sheet. His body is carried by two men(Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea). His feet rest on a marble pedestal which is inscribed: HVMANI/GENERIS/REDEMPTO/RI. A weeping woman stands behind the body of Christ; another grieving woman (Mary Magdalen) stands behind her with arms upraised. A male figure stands behind her. To the right of this group is a woman lying on the ground who has fainted (the Virgin Mary); two women kneel beside her. To their right is a standing man (Saint John).
Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Provenance

With Spanish Art Gallery, London, by October 21, 1929;

Purchased from Spanish Art Gallery by Robert Lehman (1891-1969), New York, no. P.165, as by Marco Zoppo, 1929-1945 [1];

His gift, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.

NOTES:

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, Robert Lehman Collection, General Correspondence, Box 31, folder 6, Tomas Harris Ltd. Copies in NAMA curatorial file.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 263, as by Marco Zoppo.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American public collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 118, 297, 589, as by follower of Mantegna.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 261, as by Marco Zoppo.

Elliot W. Rowlands, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings, 1300-1800 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 130-133 (repro.), as by North Italian School, after Mantegna.

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