Hercules en Antaeus, Andrea Mantegna (school of), after Andrea Mantegna, 1475 - 1499

Title(s)

Hercules en Antaeus
Divo Herculi invicto (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-A-11

Catalogue reference

• Hind (Italy) 17
• The Illustrated Bartsch 20

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘B 25 f 85-89’
• collector's mark: Lugt 10
• collector's mark: Lugt 11
• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’Lugt 11

Artist

• print maker: Andrea Mantegna (school of)
• after design by: Andrea Mantegna

Place

Italy

Dating

1475 - 1499

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving / color printing

Measurements

height 335 mm × width 255 mm

What

• the giant Antaeus is lifted in the air and crushed to death by Hercules

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Early Italian engraving : a critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described, Arthur Mayger Hind, dl. 5, p. 25, cat.nr. 17