Landscape with a brick factory in the middle ground, a standing man in the foreground points to the left as he faces a man lying on a rock
1626–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 10 3/4 × 15 1/8 in. (27.3 × 38.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.543
Tags
Art Historical Context
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, 17th-century Italian active from 1626 to 1680, captures a dynamic pastoral scene in this etching titled *Landscape with Brick Factory in the Middle Ground*. Created during the Baroque era, the work measures 10 3/4 × 15 1/8 inches and exemplifies Grimaldi's skill in printmaking, a medium that allowed for intricate details and widespread dissemination of landscapes to collectors across Europe. In the foreground, a standing man gestures emphatically to the left, engaging a companion reclining on a rock, drawing viewers into a moment of animated conversation amid expa...
About the Artist
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi · 1606–1680
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606–1680), known as "Il Bolognese," was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher whose career exemplifies the wide influence of the Bolognese school of landscape painting in seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Bologna, Grimaldi trained in the tradition of the Carracci, whose idealized approach to landscape — blending careful observation of nature with classical compo...