ANDREA MANTEGNA | THE TRIUMPH OF ALEXANDRIA

ANDREA MANTEGNA
Padua 1431 - 1506 Mantua
THE TRIUMPH OF ALEXANDRIA

Pen and brown ink;
Indented for transfer
266 by 266 mm; 10½ by 10½ in

Provenance:
August Grahl (1791-1868), Dresden (L.1199, twice: recto and backing),

his posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's in association with the book-dealer Alexander Twietmeyer, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by the Late Professor August Grahl of Dresden, 27-28 April 1885, lot 209 ('Part of the Triumph of Caesar, pen and sepia'),

Alexander Twietmeyer, Leipzig,

by descent to his heirs, by whom consigned,

sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 19 February 1942, lot 491 (as Workshop of Mantegna, ‘Krieger zu Roß, zu Fuß und auf einem Triumphwagen’);

Private Collection, Germany, by 1942, thence by descent;

Private Collection, Germany