DrawingsItalian17th century

A Wooded Hillside

17th century

Artists

Giovanni Francesco GrimaldiArtist

Claude LorrainPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink with gray wash on blue antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17.8 × 26.7 cm (7 × 10 1/2 in.)

Provenance

William Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617). Argoutinsky-Dologoroukow. Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris [Sotheby's, London, May 8-10, 1929, no. 174]. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1929), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

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