Landscape With Two Goatherds
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
1626–80
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 12 5/16 × 8 9/16 in. (31.3 × 21.8 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (40.3 × 27.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005
Accession Number
2005.377.71
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...