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Source Description
Federico Barocci, who worked in Urbino, made landscape sketches for use in his paintings and as independent studies. The artist’s multimedia approach—combining chalks, ink washes, and opaque paints—was novel at the time but would become standard practice for landscape artists working in later centuries. Novel, as well, was his interest in excerpts of the natural world rather than fully realized scenes. Here, the artist drew an eroded bank with a few bold lines in black chalk, then used a brush to layer brown and white ink washes, capturing the untamed clump of earth with <br>remarkable naturalism.
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147430
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Flowering Bush above an Eroded Bank
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drawing
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147430
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drawing
title
Flowering Bush above an Eroded Bank
description
Federico Barocci, who worked in Urbino, made landscape sketches for use in his paintings and as independent studies. The artist’s multimedia approach—combining chalks, ink washes, and opaque paints—was novel at the time but would become standard practice for landscape artists working in later centuries. Novel, as well, was his interest in excerpts of the natural world rather than fully realized scenes. Here, the artist drew an eroded bank with a few bold lines in black chalk, then used a brush to layer brown and white ink washes, capturing the untamed clump of earth with <br>remarkable naturalism.
date
c. 1572–1604
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79926502
creators
1180
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
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.)
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Italy, 16th century
accession
1973.171
Source extras
tec
black chalk, brush and brown wash, and lead white (partially oxidized), with traces of red chalk
tombstone
Flowering Bush above an Eroded Bank, c. 1572–1604. Federico Barocci (Italian, 1528–1612). Black chalk, brush and brown wash, and lead white (partially oxidized), with traces of red chalk; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1973.171
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cream(3) laid paper
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DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
lower right, in brown ink: del Barocci ; VERSO, across top, in brown ink: Originale del Barocci ; lower right, in graphite: D217EHLX
didYouKnow
This drawing is believed to have once been in the collection of two brothers who were considered the premier academic painters in 19th-century Rome.
citations
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. <em>The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</em>. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981.
page_number
no. 32, illus., pp. 15-16
citation
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan,<em> Faerber & Maison</em>,<em> exhibition and sale catalogue, </em>April 6-25, 1970.
citation
“The Year in Review for 1973.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31–78. <br>Published as: <em>Study of Plants on a Bank</em>
page_number
Reproduced: p. 36; Mentioned: p. 74, no. 49
citation
“Annual Report for 1973.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 6 (June 1974): 179–213.<br>Published as: <em>Study of Plants on a Bank</em>
page_number
Mentioned: p. 188
citation
Gaeta Bertelà, Giovanna. Disegni di Federico Barocci: Catalogo della mostra. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1975.
page_number
p. 32, under cat. 16
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 116
citation
Smith, Graham. “Federico Barocci at Cleveland and New Haven.” <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 120, no. 902 (1978): 330–33.
page_number
p. 330
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.
page_number
no. 30, pp. 34-35
citation
Emiliani, Andrea. Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535-1612). Ancona: Il lavoro editoriale/ Ars Books, 2008.
page_number
cat. 35.3, p. 287
citation
Mann, Judith Walker, Babette Bohn, and Carol Plazzotta. Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line. 2012.
page_number
p. 261n28, p. 261n30
citation
Pillsbury, Edmund P., and Louise S. Richards. The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints : the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 15-March 26, 1978, Yale University Art Gallery, April 11-June 4, 1978. New Haven: The Gallery, 1978.
page_number
ca. 33, p. 57
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-06-18 17:15:42.811000
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147430
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DR - Italian
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black chalk, brush and brown wash, and lead white (partially oxidized), with traces of red chalk
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male
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