Landscape with a River
by VIOLA, Giovan Battista, Oil on canvas, 39 x 50 cm
This painting and its pendant (Landscape with Hunters, also in the Budapest museum) were long considered as School of Domenichino, then ascribed to Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi. The present attribution to Viola was proposed on the basis of a comparison with a work in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, inventoried under the artist’s name in 1693.