Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto) (1567): Art, History and Details

Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto) (1567) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gherardo Cibo (Italian, 1512–1600).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Gherardo Cibo was more botanist than professional artist. The compiler of at least five volumes of dried plant specimens collected in the Marches (central-eastern) region of Italy, Cibo made drawings in order to record the habitats where he collected plants. He executed this drawing in the field, annotating at upper left the dried cornflower (concia fior da liso) he had gathered on the spot. Though Cibo learned to draw landscapes at an early age when he visited Northern Europe, this sheet reveals his knowledge of Florentine and Venetian models.

Object facts

• Title: Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
• Date: 1567
• Creator attribution: Gherardo Cibo (Italian, 1512–1600)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and brown ink (iron gall)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 14.4 x 21.2 cm (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 22.4 x 28.7 cm (8 13/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - Italian
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1997.37.a

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• P & D. Colnaghi, London. Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. London: June-July 1971.
• Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.

View the collection record

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