Landscape with a House
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
24.2 × 18.5 cm (9 9/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27904
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
A Bolognese architect and painter of the Carracci School, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi played an important role in the development of classical landscape art in 17th-century Europe, with over 50 prints of idyllic imaginary views. Myriad details—from the smoking chimney and fishing party, to the tiny outdoor shrine—only enhance the charm of this example.
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...