Lot 342: JAKOB PHILIPP HACKERT

PRENZLAU 1737 - 1807 FLORENCE A WOMAN AND CHILD APPROACHING A TALL UMBRELLA PINE, AT GENZANO Black chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper; signed and dated, lower left: J. Philipp Hackert f./ 1769 in Genzano; bears inscription on reverse of backing sheet: Charlotte Clive / Bought at Naples of Mr. Hacket / 19 March 1787 542 by 401 mm

Newcastle, 1969, no. 238

Purchased from the artist by Charlotte Clive in 1787 (see inscription, verso); with Abbot & Holder, London, from whom purchased, 1968

Genzano lies to the south east of Rome, on the shores of Lake Nemi. Hackert made two dated views in the area in 17841, but was clearly also there somewhat earlier in his long stay in Italy. Claudia Nordhoff has in fact proposed, on stylistic grounds, that an undated painted view of Lake Nemi, now in Weimar, and also a destroyed watercolour formerly in Berlin, were executed around 17692, and the date on the present drawing corroborates her assumption of such an earlier visit. 1. Now in Budapest and Vienna; C. Nordhoff, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807, Verzeichnis seine Werke, 2 vols., Berlin 1994, nos. 175, 176 2. Ibid., nos. 475, 1001