Thursday, April 20, 2017

Italian Rivers by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landscape with river
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landing with boats
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

"Grimaldi's ceiling designs and landscapes, especially the engravings after the landscapes, etched both by himself and by his son, Alessandro Grimaldi (1630-63) perpetuate his contemporary fame. Working in the tradition of landscape painting established by the Bolognese Annibale Carracci and Domenichino, as well as noting the influence of the Northern landscapists who worked in Rome, Grimaldi developed an ideal and serene landscape, drawn with a rapid line and with volume and shadow depicted through the use of washes and parallel hatching. He designed for the theater and was in charge of the special effects for an opera performed in the Palazzo Barberini in honor of Queen Christina of Sweden, who also owned several of his drawings."   

 from biographical notes supplied by the British Museum. The Grimaldi drawings grouped here from Teylers Museum in Haarlem are at least partially derived from that well-known collection of Queen Christina.

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
River with bathers
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
River with bathers
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landscape with figures and bridge
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Figures in landscape
ca. 1652-62
drawing
Rijksmuseum

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Trees on riverbank
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landscape with river
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
River landscape with mules
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
River landscape
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
House built into city walls
before 1680
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Figures watching fireworks display at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
before 1680
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landscape with bridge leading to castle
before 1658
drawing
British Museum

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Christ tempted by Satan in the wilderness
before 1658
drawing
British Museum