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

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 by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

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 · 16061680

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...

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