The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 6, 2024
Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
1567
(Italian, 1512–1600)
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
Description
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.- 1567part of sketchbook inscribed "Libero 24" and dated October 1567, folio A61971with 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].1996with Michael Miller Lucy Vivante Fine Arts Inc., New York, 1996.
- 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.
- Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).
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