id:			149358
accession number:	1978.21
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.21
updated:		2025-06-20 11:29:57.634000

River Landscape with View of St. Peter's Basilica, after 1660. Circle of Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Italian, 1606–1680). Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk; framing lines in graphite; sheet: 11.4 x 26.5 cm (4 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden Fund, 1978.21

title:				River Landscape with View of St. Peter's Basilica
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creation date:			after 1660
creation date earliest:		1660
creation date latest:		1670
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creditline:			Delia E. Holden Fund
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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk; framing lines in graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Italian, 1606–1680)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 11.4 x 26.5 cm (4 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
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	description:	cream(3) laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles
	opening date:   1979-03-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

	title:		Visions of Landscape: East and West
	opening date:   1982-02-17T05:00:00
	<i>Visions of Landscape: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

	title:		Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1986-12-16T05:00:00
	<i>Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

	title:		Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650
	opening date:   1991-08-27T04:00:00
	<i>Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

	title:		Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
	opening date:   2019-10-13T04:00:00
	<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, Concept, Dogma, and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650 (Aug. 27-Oct. 20, 1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-08-27T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, Views of Rome from the Permanent Collection (Nov. 1, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989).', 'opening_date': '1988-11-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).', 'opening_date': '1986-12-15T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, Visions of Landscape (Feb. 17-Mar. 21, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1982-02-17T00:00:00'}

* {'description': "CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 44, illus., pp. 15, 56.", 'opening_date': '1979-03-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, "Year in Review for 1978," cma Bulletin 66 (1979), p. 43 no. 44, illus. p. 13.', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Houston, University of St. Thomas Art Department, Builders and Humanists: The Renaissance Popes As Patrons of the Arts (1966), no. 26 (or 6?), illus.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Richard Cosway, London (according to label from Schaeffer Galleries; Lugt 628-9). William Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617, lower right, inscribed in brown ink); his sale, Christie and Manson, London, Part III, 18-25 June 1840 (according to departmental cataloging sheet). Eric H. L. Sexton (Lugt 2769c, verso, lower right, in violet ink). Mrs. Hanns S. Schaeffer, New York (according to departmental card); [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–47.  Published as attributed to: Domenico Zampieri
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 13; Mentioned: p. 43, no. 44
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613

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IMAGES

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