Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right

Q: When was "Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right" created?

This artwork was created 1626–80.

Q: Is "Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right" in the public domain?

Yes, Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

1626–80

Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 12 11/16 × 17 15/16 in. (32.2 × 45.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926

Accession Number

26.70.4(229)

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...

Landscape with a man holding a snake to a terrified child, watched by a fashionably dressed couple on the riverbank at right

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