Landscape with a Bridge and Two Figures
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
1606–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
13-5/16 x 17-1/2 in. (33.8 x 44.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.204.1
Tags
BridgesLandscapes
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...