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Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)

1567

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Gherardo Cibo

(Italian, 1512–1600)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink (iron gall)

Support: Cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of cream-yellow wove paper

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.)

John L. Severance Fund 1997.37.a

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

by artist, upper left and upper center, in brown ink: concia d[el]. Mga[a superscript] fior d[i]. lisa. d[i]e. q[uinta]. .7. d[ie]. 9.re 1567: ; lower right, in brown ink: 34

Inscription Translation

extended inscription, "concia del maggiore fior di lisa. die quinta 7(?) die novembre 1567", i.e. "curing [drying] of the greater cornflower on the fifth day 7(?) of November 1567."

Provenance

1567

part of sketchbook inscribed "Libero 24" and dated October 1567, folio A6

1971

with P & D. Colnaghi & Co. London, 1971; as Messer Ulisse Severino da Cingoli, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1971, no. 11; [part of sketchbook dissembled by Colnaghi].

1996

with Michael Miller Lucy Vivante Fine Arts Inc., New York, 1996.

Citations

P & D. Colnaghi, London. Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. London: June-July 1971. no. 6, pl. III [as Messer Ulisse Severino d Cingoli].

Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. London: Harvey Miller, 2008. p. 154, no. 129.

Exhibition history

Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).