Old Masters sales preview

Highlight of this month's New York Old Master sales will be Andrea Mantegna's Descent into Limbo, but many other noteworthy items are also coming up, as the Art Newspaper reports.

Sotheby's offerings are listed here; Christie's, here.

BONUS: The Mantegna is listed here, but as of this moment, the page is rather a mess: where the painting's description should appear is the description of a lot of manuscript leaves for George Washington's first Inaugural Address. And rather amusingly, the Mantegna is captioned "Decent into Limbo" -- perhaps to indicate that Christ is properly clothed, unlike the rather scantily-draped inhabitants of Limbo.

Posted by David on January 10, 2003 9:08 PM