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Farm with Trees in a Hilly Landscape (recto)
Also known as: Buildings Surrounded by Trees on a Hillside
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
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
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.
Exhibition history
Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001). Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gherardo Cibo (Italian, 1512–1600)
- Date
- 1567
- Medium
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1997.37.a
More by Gherardo Cibo in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011461
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