Landschap met vier dobbelaars

About this artwork

height 344 mm x width 466 mm

Art Historical Context

**Landschap met vier dobb (Landscape with Four Gamblers Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi an Italian Baroque artist active in Rome during the 17th century (c. 1606–1680), created this etching around the mid-1600s. 344 mm high by 466 mm wide, it exemplifies the refined landscape prints popular among collectors of the era. The title reveals a scenic vista interrupted by four gamblers, blending idyllic nature with human activity—a common motif in Baroque art that juxtaposed serene landscapes with everyday or moralizing figures. Grimaldi, trained in Bologna and influenced by masters like Domenichino...

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...