# Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill

**Fra Bartolommeo** (Italian, 1472–1517)  
c. 1508  
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.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1957.498. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.498).

## About this work

This is a significant early example of pure landscape drawing in Europe, as it is dedicated completely to the depiction of nature for its own sake, without suggestion of a 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 made directly from nature. The sheet comes from an album of 41 landscape studies by Fra Bartolommeo assembled by an eighteenth-century collector and disbound for sale in the mid-20th century. A member of the Dominican Order, Fra Bartolomeo likely produced these drawings during his travels in and around Florence, often to Dominican establishments.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Fra Bartolommeo drew this in about 1508, aged about 31. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Pen and ink.** Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.

### [Fra Bartolommeo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/fra-bartolommeo)

Italian, 1472–1517

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- Culture: Italy, Florence
- The artist was about 31
- Real size: about 9 × 12 in (22 × 29 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 16th century
- Movement: [Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/renaissance)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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