River Landscape with Fishermen and Sportsmen
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, known as Il Bolognese (Bologna 1606 – Rome 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1626 - 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2591 x 1930 mm (102 x 76 in)
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Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530090
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Landscape with Fishermen and Sportsmen by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Bologna 1606 – Rome 1680). A fisherman with a net, a huntsman with a gun dog and dead game and other figures in a romantic landscape and classical architecture. An unusually large and figural work for this painter, who was best known for his pure landscapes in the style of Carracci. He spent most of his career in Rome but from 1648-51 he was in Paris, helping to decorate the palaces of Cardinal Mazarin and the Louvre.
Provenance
Collection of Vernon Harcourt (1863-1922), Nuneham Court; Viscount Harcourt, 1948; R. W. Lloyd (1868 - 1958), Christie's 29 May 1959, lot 72; purchased by Ralph Stawell Dutton (1898–1985), 8th & last Lord Sherborne, from Colnaghi (receipt 24 August 1960), in 1960; bequeathed to the National Trust by Ralph Stawell Dutton, with the rest of the collections, house, gardens and estate of Hinton Ampner.
Credit line
Hinton Ampner, The Ralph Dutton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, known as Il Bolognese (Bologna 1606 – Rome 1680), artist
References
Waagen 1857 Gustav Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 350