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Jakob Philipp Hackert
Description
- Jakob Philipp Hackert
- An italianate landscape with shepherdesses resting beside a pond, a bay in the distance beyond
- signed and dated lower right: Ph. Hackert.p.1778
- oil on canvas, unlined, in the original(?) carved and gilt wood frame, with the inscription 'pour Monsieur de Yorck'(?) on the reverse
Provenance
Catalogue Note
Hitherto unknown and unpublished, this landscape has survived in remarkably fresh and original condition, with its original canvas and glazes intact. The landscape is very probably imaginary, no doubt formed or embellished by elements drawn from Hackert's extensive travels that year, which included trips to Rome, northern Italy, Switzerland, Naples and the south. The distant coastline, for example, carries distinct echoes of Hackert's views of the coast at Paestum near Naples. Another similar view, painted in the same year as the present work, is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, and a very similar design is found again in a painting of 1782 formerly at Gotha (see C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jakob Philip Hackert 1737-1807. Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Berlin 1994, vol. II, pp. 52, 70, cat. nos. 117 and 162).