id: 134951 accession number: 1957.498 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.498 updated: 2025-02-09 02:18:00.527000 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: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (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 10-31, 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-February 28, 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: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). 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: Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions opening date: 1978-09-15T04:00:00 Italian Drawings with von Hirsh Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 15-December 4, 1978). 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: 1986-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). title: Drawings by Fra Bartolommeo opening date: 1990-12-15T05:00:00 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). 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, Cleveland, OH (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). title: Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit opening date: 2023-07-02T04:00:00 Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1958-01-01T00:00:00'} --- 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: digital description: wall description: --- 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: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 152-154 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