The Entombment

Copy, on the same verso, of a niello print formerly kept in the Durazzo collection (n. 2903), now in Paris, Louvre, Cabinet Rothschild collection.

The composition corresponds, in reverse, to a painting by Filippino Lippi of ca. 1490-95, probably the middle panel of a predella, in the Kress Collection at the National of Art, Washington, as well as to Filippino’s cartoon for the same, pricked for transfer, in the Allen Memoril Art Museum, Oberlin.

Although Blum has attributed this print to northern Italy, it must be Florentine and datable to the end of the fifteenth century.

The nielli of the Durazzo collection were reproduced in engravings by the owner himself, between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Venice - as also specified by Malaspina in his catalog of 1824 - constituting a series that was circulated and collected by amateurs. Bartsch describes these copies in his volume published in 1811, a date that therefore constitutes the terminus ante quem for the execution.