The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 1, 2023

Flowering Bush above an Eroded Bank

1565–1570

Federico Barocci

(Italian, 1528–1612)

Italy, 16th century

Black chalk, brush and brown wash, and lead white (partially oxidized to pink), with traces of red chalk

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 20 x 13.2 cm (7 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 30.4 x 22.9 cm (11 15/16 x 9 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.171

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right, in brown ink: del Barocci ; VERSO, across top, in brown ink: Originale del Barocci ; lower right, in graphite: D217EHLX

Provenance
according to departmental card: Camuccini, Rome. [Yvonne Tan Bunzl]. Dean of Chichester.
[P & D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.]
Citations
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. p. 74 no. 49, illus. p. 36 www.jstor.org
Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981. no. 32, illus., pp. 15-16
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 116 archive.org
Exhibition history

CMA; New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints (1978), no. 33, illus. cover.

Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-March 25, 1978); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 15-June 4, 1978).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 3-May 10, 1981).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1973.171