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Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road

ca. 1501
Not on view
This is a significant early example of pure landscape drawing, produced infrequently in European art in the early sixteenth century. The sheet comes from a now-disbound album of landscape studies by Fra Bartolomeo assembled by an eighteenth-century collector. Fra Bartolomeo likely produced these drawings outdoors during his travels in and around Florence, often to Dominican establishments (he was a member of the Dominican Order). A number of the sites
he recorded in these drawings have been identified.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road
  • Artist: Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, Florence 1473–1517 Florence)
  • Date: ca. 1501
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk; mounted on an album page
  • Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 1/8 in. (29.8 x 20.6 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.270
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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