Lot 117: Antonio Pollaiuolo (Florence c. 1432-1498 Rome)

Antonio Pollaiuolo (Florence c. 1432-1498 Rome)
Battle of the Nudes
engraving, circa 1470-1475, on laid paper, without watermark, 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
S. 16/15 3/8 x 22½/22½ in. (405/392 x 573/570 mm.)

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).

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