id: 134951 accession number: 1957.498 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.498 updated: 2020-06-01 09:01:15.076000 Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill, c. 1508. Fra Bartolommeo (Italian, 1472-1517). Pen and brown ink; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, Purchase, Dudley P. Allen Fund, Delia E. Holden Fund and L. E. Holden Fund 1957.498 title: Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1508 creation date earliest: 1503 creation date latest: 1513 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund, Purchase, Dudley P. Allen Fund, Delia E. Holden Fund and L. E. Holden Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, 15th century technique: pen and brown ink department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fra Bartolommeo (Italian, 1472-1517) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to cream(2) laid paper (F.M.N.Gabburri's mount) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: a bird in ink lower left recto translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Old Master Drawings opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-30, 1964). title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-April 1, 1967). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-10-29T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1971-January 2, 1972). title: Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections opening date: 1972-02-25T05:00:00 Italian Drawings Selected From Mid-Western Collections. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 25-April 16, 1972). title: The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles opening date: 1979-03-06T05:00:00 The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: National Schools of Style opening date: 1983-06-14T04:00:00 National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). title: Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1986-12-15T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Fra Bartolomeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance opening date: 1990-12-16T05:00:00 Fra Bartolomeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance. 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 16, 1990-February 17, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 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). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). title: Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance opening date: 2016-10-15T00:00:00 Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (organizer) (October 15, 2016-January 15, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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. --- PROVENANCE Probably by descent to studio assistant Paolo del Signoraccio (died 1547), called Fra. Paolino da Pistoia, monastery of San Marco, Florence date: 1517-1547? footnotes: citations: Possibly bequeathed to his pupil, Sister Plautilla Nelli [1523-1588], convent of Santa Caterina, Florence date: 1547-1588? footnotes: citations: Possibly to the Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena, Florence, to 1725 date: 1588?-1725? footnotes: citations: Cavaliere Francesco Maria Nicolò Gabburri (d. 1742), Florence (his mount), Lugt 2818 and Lugt suppl. 2992b date: 1725-1742? footnotes: citations: By descent to his heirs date: 1742 footnotes: citations: William Kent (1685-1748), London and Rome. date: 1742?-1748? footnotes: citations: his sale, London. date: ca. 1748 footnotes: citations: Private collection, southern Ireland date: ?-1925 footnotes: citations: Private collection, England date: ?-1957 footnotes: citations: with Sotheby’s, London, 20 November 1957, “Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra. Bartolommeo," no. 3. date: 1957 footnotes: citations: with F. Kleinberger, New York date: 1957 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1957- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The artist who made this drawing, Fra (Friar) Bartolommeo, left his successful Florentine studio in 1500 and renounced painting in order to join the Dominican Order. digital 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. wall description: In 1957 a group of 41 sheets depicting landscapes by Fra Bartolommeo, one of the most influential artists of the Italian Renaissance, appeared on the art market. The discovery was significant. They are among the first works of Western art dedicated completely to nature-landscapes for their own sake, without suggestion of 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 done directly from nature. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Joachim, Harold, and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 24 url: Jeudwine, W. R. "Fine Works on the Market: A Volume of Landscape Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo." Apollo 66 (November 1957): 132-135. page number: Mentioned: pp. 132-135; reproduced: p. 132, n. I url: Sotheby & Co. "Catalogue of Drawings of Landscapes and Trees by Fra Bartolommeo." (November 1957). page number: Mentioned: p. vii, under n. 3 url: Frankfurther, Alfred M. "Cleveland: Model Museum for a Modern Cosmopolis." Art News 57 (March 1958): 24-37. page number: Reproduced: p. 30, n. 18 url: Fleming, John. "Mr. Kent, Art Dealer, and the Fra Bartolommeo Drawings." Connoisseur 141 (May 1958): 227. page number: P. 227 url: "International Salesroom." Connoisseur 141 (February 1958): 44. page number: Reproduced: p. 44, n. 17 url: Columbia University, and M. Knoedler & Co. Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries. New York: The Trustees of Columbia University, 1959. page number: Mentioned: pp. 17-18, under n. 13; reproduced: plate IX url: Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. "A Landscape Drawing by Fra Bartolommeo." Bulletin of the Smith College Museum of Art (1959): 1-12. page number: Mentioned: p. 11, note 30 url: Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, vol. 2. Milan: Electa editrice, 1961. page number: Mentioned: p. 72 url: Richards, Louise S. "Three Early Italian Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 7 (September 1962): 167-174. page number: Mentioned: p. 172; reproduced: p. 173, n. 5 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151904 Jaffé, Michael. "Italian Drawings from Dutch Collections." The Burlington Magazine 104, no. 711 (June 1962): 230-238. page number: Pp. 232-233 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/873690 The Cleveland Museum of Art. “Two Italian Drawings.” August 20, 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0993 Harkonen, Helen Bernice. Farms and Farmers in Art. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, 1965. page number: Mentioned: p. 26 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 86 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n110 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: n. 139 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 86 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n110 Baer, Curtis O. Landscape Drawings. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1969. page number: Mentioned: pp. 15 and 50, under n. 8; reproduced: p. 51, n. 8 url: Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 1971. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: n. 57 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 18, note 34 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27652261 Neilson, Nancy Ward. Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections. St. Louis: The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1972. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: n. 2 url: Avery, Catherine B, ed. The New Century Italian Renaissance Encyclopedia. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 98; reproduced: p.97 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 99 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n119 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: pp. 39-40; reproduced: p. 41, n. 42 url: Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned: pp. 13, 16, 21, 25, 27-28; reproduced: p. 27, n. 3 url: Denison, Cara D., and Helen B. Mules, eds. European Drawings, 1375-1825. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 39 url: Olszewski, Edward J. "Italian Drawings in Cleveland." The Connoisseur 206 (April 1981): 284-288. page number: Mentioned: pp. 285 and 287; reproduced: p. 285, n. 6 url: Shaw, James Byam. The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, vol. 1. Paris: Institut Néerlandais, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 23 url: Gordley, Barbara Pike. "The Drawings of Beccafumi." Ph.D. diss., Princeton University 1988. page number: Mentioned: pp. 38-39 and note 77 and pp. 365-366, under n. 32 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: pp. 375-377 and 393-394, under n. 111; reproduced: p. 392 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 75 url: Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine. "Book Reviews." The Burlington Magazine 133 (July 1991): 453-454. page number: Mentioned: pp. 453-454 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 10 url: Olszewski, Edward J. "Central and Landscapes in Italian Renaissance Paintings." Source: Notes in the History of Art 17, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 29-35. page number: Mentioned: p. 29; reproduced: p. 31, n. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23205135 Torriti, Piero, ed. Beccafumi. Milan: Electa, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 240, under n. D1 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: pp. 8, 26-27, and 283; reproduced: p. 27 url: Olszewski, Edward J., ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepos Publishers, 2008. page number: Mentioned: pp. 38-39, under n. 33; reproduced: p. 38, n. 33 url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 9; reproduced: p. 8, n. 5 url: Ackerman, James S. Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 12, pl. 10 url: Elen, Albert J., and Chris Fischer. Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 119; reproduced: p. 121, 216, no. 6.10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.498/1957.498_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.498/1957.498_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.498/1957.498_full.tif