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Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill

c. 1508

Fra Bartolommeo

(Italian, 1472–1517)

Italy, Florence, 15th century

Pen and brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(2) laid paper (F.M.N.Gabburri's mount)

Sheet: 22.3 x 29.4 cm (8 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.5 x 41.2 cm (10 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.)

Gift of the Hanna Fund, Purchase, Dudley P. Allen Fund, Delia E. Holden Fund and L. E. Holden Fund 1957.498

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The artist who made this drawing, Fra (brother) Bartolommeo, left his successful Florentine artistic studio in 1500 and renounced painting in order to join the Dominican Order.

Description

This is a significant early example of pure landscape drawing in Europe, as it is dedicated completely to the depiction of nature for its own sake, without suggestion of a biblical or historical narrative. The rapidity and regularity of strokes used for the evergreen and deciduous trees and the sweeping lines in the foreground suggest that the landscape in Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill was made directly from nature. The sheet comes from an album of 41 landscape studies by Fra Bartolommeo assembled by an eighteenth-century collector and disbound for sale in the mid-20th century. A member of the Dominican Order, Fra Bartolomeo likely produced these drawings during his travels in and around Florence, often to Dominican establishments.

Inscriptions

Inscription

a bird in ink lower left recto

Provenance

1517-1547?

Probably by descent to studio assistant Paolo del Signoraccio (died 1547), called Fra. Paolino da Pistoia, monastery of San Marco, Florence

1547-1588?

Possibly bequeathed to his pupil, Sister Plautilla Nelli [1523-1588], convent of Santa Caterina, Florence

1588?-1725?

Possibly to the Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena, Florence, to 1725

1725-1742?

Cavaliere Francesco Maria Nicolò Gabburri (d. 1742), Florence (his mount), Lugt 2818 and Lugt suppl. 2992b

1742

By descent to his heirs

1742?-1748?

William Kent (1685-1748), London and Rome.

ca. 1748

his sale, London.

?-1925

Private collection, southern Ireland

?-1957

Private collection, England

1957

with Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1957, “Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra. Bartolommeo," no. 3.

1957

with F. Kleinberger, New York

1957-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

Citations

Joachim, Harold, and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Mentioned: p. 24

Jeudwine, W. R. "Fine Works on the Market: A Volume of Landscape Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo." Apollo 66 (November 1957): 132-135. Mentioned: pp. 132-135; reproduced: p. 132, n. I

Sotheby & Co. "Catalogue of Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra Bartolommeo." (November 1957). Mentioned: p. vii, under n. 3

Frankfurther, Alfred M. "Cleveland: Model Museum for a Modern Cosmopolis." Art News 57 (March 1958): 24-37. Reproduced: p. 30, n. 18

Fleming, John. "Mr. Kent, Art Dealer, and the Fra Bartolommeo Drawings." Connoisseur 141 (May 1958): 227. P. 227

"International Salesroom." Connoisseur 141 (February 1958): 44. Reproduced: p. 44, n. 17

Columbia University, and M. Knoedler & Co. Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries. New York: The Trustees of Columbia University, 1959. Mentioned: pp. 17-18, under n. 13; reproduced: plate IX

Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. "A Landscape Drawing by Fra Bartolommeo." Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art (1959): 1-12. Mentioned: p. 11, note 30

Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, vol. 2. Milan: Electa editrice, 1961. Mentioned: p. 72

Richards, Louise S. "Three Early Italian Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 7 (September 1962): 167-174. Mentioned: p. 172; reproduced: p. 173, n. 5 www.jstor.org

Jaffé, Michael. "Italian Drawings from Dutch Collections." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 711 (June 1962): 230-238. Pp. 232-233 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. “Two Italian Drawings.” August 20, 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Harkonen, Helen Bernice. Farms and Farmers in Art. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, 1965. Mentioned: p. 26

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 86 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. Reproduced: n. 139

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 86 archive.org

Baer, Curtis O. Landscape Drawings. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1969. Mentioned: pp. 15 and 50, under n. 8; reproduced: p. 51, n. 8

Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1971. Mentioned and reproduced: n. 57

Von Holst, Christian. "Florentiner Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Zeit von 1480 bis 1580. Kleine Beobachtungen und Ergänzungen." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 15 (May 1971): 1-64. Mentioned: p. 18, note 34 www.jstor.org

Neilson, Nancy Ward. Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections. St. Louis: The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1972. Mentioned and reproduced: n. 2

Avery, Catherine B, ed. The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. Mentioned: p. 98; reproduced: p.97

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 99 archive.org

Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Mentioned: pp. 39-40; reproduced: p. 41, n. 42

Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned: pp. 13, 16, 21, 25, 27-28; reproduced: p. 27, n. 3

Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, eds. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. Mentioned: p. 39

Olszewski, Edward J. "Italian Drawings in Cleveland." The Connoisseur 206 (April 1981): 284-288. Mentioned: pp. 285 and 287; reproduced: p. 285, n. 6

Shaw, James Byam. The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, vol. 1. Paris: Institut Néerlandais, 1983. Mentioned: p. 23

Gordley, Barbara Pike. "The Drawings of Beccafumi." Ph.D. diss., Princeton University 1988. Mentioned: pp. 38-39 and note 77 and pp. 365-366, under n. 32

Fischer, Chris. Fra Bartolommeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance: a Selection from the Rotterdam Albums and Landscape Drawings from Various Collections. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, 1990. Mentioned: pp. 375-377 and 393-394, under n. 111; reproduced: p. 392

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 75

Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine. "Book Reviews." The Burlington Magazine 133 (July 1991): 453-454. Mentioned: pp. 453-454

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York: Rizzoli International, 1992. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10

Olszewski, Edward J. "Central and Landscapes in Italian Renaissance Paintings." Source: Notes in the History of Art 17, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 29-35. Mentioned: p. 29; reproduced: p. 31, n. 2 www.jstor.org

Torriti, Piero, ed. Beccafumi. Milan: Electa, 1998. Mentioned: p. 240, under n. D1

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications: New York, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 8, 26-27, and 283; reproduced: p. 27

Olszewski, Edward J., ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepos Publishers, 2008. Mentioned: pp. 38-39, under n. 33; reproduced: p. 38, n. 33

Alsteens, Stijn, Carmen C. Bambach, George Goldner, Colta Ives, Perrin Stein, and Nathalie Stresser, eds. Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. Mentioned: p. 9; reproduced: p. 8, n. 5

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 152-154

Ackerman, James S. Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reproduced: p. 12, pl. 10

Elen, Albert J., and Chris Fischer. Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2016. Mentioned: p. 119; reproduced: p. 121, 216, no. 6.10

Exhibition history

cma 1958-59; New York 1959a, 16-18, pl. ix, no. 13; cma 1960b; cma 1962a; cma 1964; cma 1965b; cma 1966-67a; cma 1968b; Cleveland 1971, no. 57; Saint Louis 1972, no. 2; cma 1978b; Cleveland 1979a, 13, 16, 21, 25, 27-28, no. 3; Cleveland 1980, 39-42, no. 42; cma 1983f; cma 1986-87b; Rotterdam et al. 1990-92, 107, 375-77, 379, 393-94, no. 111.

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).

Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).

Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 25-April 16, 1972).

Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (December 15, 1990-February 17, 1991).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (October 15, 2016-January 15, 2017).

Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).

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