Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road
Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)
ca. 1501 · Pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk; mounted on an album page · Robert Lehman Collection
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.
- Artist
- Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)
- Date
- ca. 1501
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk; mounted on an album page
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
