Artist: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Attributed to) (Italian, 1606-1680)
Medium: pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 16 1/4 in. x 10 15/16 in. (41.3 cm. x 27.8 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.73
- "No. 16 Francisco Bollognese"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink - "anibal carats"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: graphite
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Vitzthum was the first to point out that this sheet is a copy of an Annibale Carracci drawing in Budapest (repr. Master Drawings, vol. 5, no. 3 [1967], pl. 9; another, poorer copy is in the Uffizi [ibid., pl. 8]). Grimaldi is known to have made many copies of Annibale's landscape drawings (ibid., p. 259), and the old inscription supports the traditional attribution.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).