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Lot 153
  • 153

Jakob Philipp Hackert

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jakob Philipp Hackert
  • a landscape with a view of itri, a road with a shepherd and his flock in the foreground
  • Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
    inscribed and signed and dated in pen and brown ink at the top to the left: à Itri dans le royame de Naples, prise du Côtè en venant de Rome 1782.PH: Hackert f.

Condition

Laid down, possibly on the original cardboard. Some creases and looseness on the top section of the drawing where the paper appears to have became loose and is not glued to the cardboard. Some lines of discoloration all around the edges, possibly due to an old mount. Overall in quite good condition, paper slightly yellowed but wash and pencil fresh. Sold in a modern wooden gilded frame.
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Catalogue Note

Itri, dominated by the medieval castle and the towering Monte Orso, part of the Monti Aurunci, is the subject of this view.  The village is north of Gaeta along the via Appia, set in handsome countryside between the mountains and the sea, and was visited by Hackert at least twice, in 1782 and again in 1792.  Two other views of the area were executed by Hackert in 1782: a dramatic view of a Roman bridge, now destroyed, in Vienna, Kupferstichkabinett, inv.no. 11919, and a sheet in Weimar, Kunstsammlungen, inv.no. KK 1878.1  The Weimar drawing is a view of Itri with the medieval castle visible to the far left.  Hackert returned to the village in 1792 and two other drawings date from this second visit.2 

The only painted work by the artist that shows Itri is dated 1788 (Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum).3  It is a bucolic view with the village in the background and to the left the old building of the Santuario della Madonna della Civita, rebuilt in 1820.

1.  See C. Nordhoff, H. Reimer, Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1737-1807, Berlin 1994, vol. I, reproduced figs. 387-388 and vol. II, nos. 793-794

2.  Ibid., nos. 859-860, not reproduced

3.  Ibid., vol. I, reproduced fig. 100, vol. II, no. 205