Tuscan Farmhouse
Artist
Remigio Cantagallina
(Italian, 1582 - 1656)
Dateca. 1630-1650
MediumPen and brown ink on brown wash
DimensionsImage: 10 1/16 × 16 7/16 inches (25.56 × 41.75 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 16 11/16 inches (26.67 × 42.39 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 16 11/16 inches (26.67 × 42.39 cm)
Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman
Object number64-35
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryOccidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 71.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as Tuscan Farmhouse.
This charming drawing, perhaps made from life, shows a quiet scene in the countryside near Florence and is typical of the taste for realism in 17th-century landscape art. The handling of the washes conveys the effects of bright sunlight most effectively.
Frederick (1894-1994) and Betty (née Berta Austerlitz, b. 1897) Mont, New York, by 1964;
Given by Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 10.
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Giovanni Segala
late 17th-early 18th century
44-29/4 A,B
