id: 134951 accession number: 1957.498 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.498 updated: 2019-10-01 08:01:26.051000 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 (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (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 (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.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (8/27/00 - 10/17/00); NY, NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library (5/24/01- 8/19/01); Museum of Fine Arts Houston (10/14/01 - 1/6/02); "Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art", exh. cat. no. 4, color repr. p. 27, pp. 26-27; p. 283.
CMA, "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" (Mar. 9, 2014-Jun. 8, 2014).
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (10/15/2016 – 1/15/2017): "Fra Bartolommeo: The Divine Renaissance" --- PROVENANCE Probably from a large group of drawings left by Fra Bartolommeo to Fra Paolino da Pistoia (c. 1490-1547), convent of San Marco, Florence; possibly bequeathed by Fra Paolino to Sister Plautilla Nelli (1523-1588), convent of Santa Caterina, Florence (the bird in the lower left, recto, in brown ink is probably the bird Monbeig-Goguel considered to be the collector's mark of Suor Platilla Nelli; see Monbeig-Goguel 1991, 453; for the Platilla Nelli provenance, see also Sotheby's sales catalogue 1957 and Fischer 1989); purchased from the convent of Santa Caterina in 1725 by Cavaliere Francesco Maria Nicolò Gabburri, Florence; William Kent, London. Purchased for private collection in Ireland in 1925; [sold, Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1957, no. 3]. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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 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. 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 Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts Five Centuries of Patronage. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1971. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 57 url: Neilson, Nancy Ward. Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections. St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1972. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 2 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, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: 39-42, cat. no. 42; Reproduced: p. 41 url: Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981. page number: Mentioned: p. 13, p. 16, p. 21, pp. 25-27; Reproduced: p. 27 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 and Reproduced: p. 107, pp. 375-77, p. 379, pp. 393-94 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, 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: p. 8, pp. 26-27, p.283, Reproduced: p. 27 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