Live Auction 15172Old Master & British Drawings
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, called il Bolognese (Bologna 1606-1680 Rome)
Lot 34 Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Ann Sutherland Harris

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, called il Bolognese (Bologna 1606-1680 Rome)

Buildings above a wooded lake

Closed30 January 2018

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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)

with Lorna Lowe, London 1972.

Specialist note

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.