Landscape with a Large Tree on the Right and a Distant View of a Town on the Left
Medium
Pen and brown iron gall ink, over charcoal, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream card
Dimensions
21.8 × 31.5 cm (8 5/8 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
185725
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...