Portrait of Giovanni-Francesco Grimaldi [Il Bolognese]
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Catalogue Number:
45
Artist:
After Agostino Masucci (1691-1758)
Title:
Portrait of Giovanni-Francesco Grimaldi [Il Bolognese]
Work Type:
Drawing
Date:
18th Century
Culture:
French
Medium:
graphite and red chalks on laid paper
Dimensions:
12″ h and 7 3/4″ w
Inscriptions and Annotations:
inscribed with FRANCISQUE GRIMALDI. Dit. BOLOGNÈSE, Peintre de Bologne
Annotated at lower left with BY-CARRACCI (ANIBATE), 1560-1609, RED + BL.CRAY; Verso annotated J532 (in oval) (graphite)
Watermark:
none
Condition:
generally clean, intact, stable
Credit Line:
Cornell College, Gift of Robert Sonnenschein II
Accession Year:
1951
Object Number:
1951.45
Commentary:
The drawing is annotated with an attribution to Annibale Carracci; however, the work itself is based on a painting of Giovanni-Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680) in the Accademia di San Luca and dated to 1680, where he was principe (director) in 1666. This work has not been attributed. The Alasko company attributed the work as being after a Agostino Masucci portrait of Grimaldi for Nicola Pio’s biographies at the Nationalmuseum Sweden (Clark, 32). Despite the similar subject, the work seems to have a closer stylistic affinity with the painting in Rome’s Accademia. CMP
Anthony Morris Clark, “The Portraits of Artists Drawn for Nicola Pio,” In Studies in Roman Eighteenth-Century Painting (Washington, DC: Decatur House Press, 1981), 20-47.