Bacchanal with Silenus, ca. 1490

  • Andrea Mantegna, Italian, 1431-1506

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 12 1/8 × 17 5/8 inches (30.8 × 44.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S729

Count Alexandre Borisovitch Lobanoff-Rostovsky (St. Petersburg, Russia)

1882, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA) Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hind, A. M. Early Italian Engraving. London, 1948, vol. 5, p. 12, no. 3 and vol. 6, plate 489.

Andrea Mantegna, Bacchanal with Silenus, ca. 1490, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S729.