LOT DETAILS

Materials:

engraving on laid paper

Size Notes:

39.2x57 cm

Condition:

second, final state, a good, even impression of this highly important and rare print, trimmed to or fractionally into the subject on three sides and approximately 20 mm. into the subject at right, made-up areas at the lower left sheet edge and the lower right corner, other smaller repaired paper splits and losses elsewhere, some pale staining

Literature:

S.R. Langdale, Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002, No. 29. J.A. Levinson, K. Oberhuber, and J. Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 13 (another impression illustrated). M.J. Zucker, The Illustrated Bartsch - Early Italian Masters, Abaris Books, New York, 1984, vol. 25, p. 13, no. 1 (another impression illustrated). K.L. Spangenberg, Six Centuries of Master Prints: Treasures from the Herbert Greer French Collection, Cincinnatti Art Museum, 1993, no. 16 (another impression illustrated). D. Landau and P. Parshall, The Rennaissance Print 1470-1550, New Haven & London, 1994, pp. 74-75 (another impression illustrated). E. Lincoln, The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker, New Haven & London, 2000, pp. 30-31 (another impression illustrated).

Provenance:

Private European Collection. With Hill-Stone, Inc., New York. Acquired from above by present owner.