Landscape with bridge traversing a river occupied with three small boats, one of which is encroaching the near river bank, in the foreground are a rocky outcrop and a figure lifting a circular dish above a seated figure
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
ca. 1626–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 8 3/4 x 12 11/16 in. (22.3 x 32.2 cm) mount: 10 1/4 x 14 5/8 in. (26 x 37.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.81
Tags
BridgesRiversLandscapesTreesBoats
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...