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River Scene (recto), Cropped Male Figure Study (verso)

17th century

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

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Artist: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Title: River Scene (recto), Cropped Male Figure Study (verso)
Date: 17th century
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash with white opaque watercolor on blue laid paper, inscribed 'Gasparo Poussino' (recto), Black chalk with white chalk (verso)
Dimensions: Sheet: 264 x 421 mm (10 3/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Accession Number: 1963.24.335r-v

Provenance: Joseph Green Cogswell; Mortimer Leo Schiff; Moore S. Achenbach; Cogswell no. 246, Hellman no.123 as "Landscape" by Gasparo Poussin (George S. Hellman, Original Drawings by the Old Masters: The Collection formed by Joseph Green Cogswell, 1786-1871, New York: privately published, 1915);
Marcel Roethlisberger, University of Geneva in a letter in file (May 30, 1975): gives attribution to Grimaldi based on his article in Arte Illustrata no. 54, 1973, p. 305 (cf. photo in file of Grimaldi 's Landscape, p. 45 in the Grimaldi Album in the British Museum (B.M. no. 197.d.1).

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