Buildings above a wooded lake

Details

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, called il Bolognese (Bologna 1606-1680 Rome)
Buildings above a wooded lake
with number '26' in ink (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
11 x 9 ½ in. (27.9 x 24.1 cm)

Provenance

with Lorna Lowe, London 1972.

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh Collects: European Drawings, 1500 to 1800, 2004-2005, no. 17 (entry by T. Smart).

Lot Essay

In this landscape, dating from the 1670s, Grimaldi alternated highly detailed areas, fully worked up in wash, with passages left unfinished, like the figures in the left foreground, lightly sketched in black chalk.

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