The location depicted is Acqua Acetosa in Rome.
Provenance: Rognin Family, Turin.
Description by Professor Riccardo Lattuada:
The painting, recently restored and in perfect condition, offers a comprehensive understanding of its formal characteristics. The execution technique, oil on canvas over a brown preparation, and the extremely careful workmanship of every detail - figures, drapery, profile of the embankment and the dilapidated building on the right in the background, clear definition even of the figures in the distance - together with the evident attention to the precision of the chiaroscuro, speak of a painter presumably active in Rome during the first half of the seventeenth century, and more precisely between 1620 and 1630; a painter specialized in the genre of landscape and small-figured paintings, who shows a figurative culture preceding that of the Bamboccianti but already influenced by them.
(cf. M. Chiarini, op. cit., n. 131, p. 347; p. 196, tav. 167; n. 134, p. 351; p. 201, tav. 171).
