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View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara

1803

Philipp Hackert

(German, 1737–1807)

Germany, 19th century

oil on fabric

Framed: 146 x 190 x 14 cm (57 1/2 x 74 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 119 x 166.5 cm (46 7/8 x 65 9/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1983.14

Location: 219 19th Century European

Description

Attracted to its dramatic vistas, volcanoes, exotic peasants, and classical ruins, landscape painters of the 1700s and 1800s flocked to the countryside around Naples. This view looks west toward the Gulf of Pozzuoli from just above the Solfatara, an area of volcanic steam vents. The ancient town of Pozzuoli, where the apostle Paul landed on his way to Rome, lies in the distance. Hackert's attention to detail and rendering of form with extreme lucidity is characteristic of German Romantic painting.

1803-1807
Artist’s estate, by descent to Johann Christian Behrendt
1807-
Johann Christian Behrendt [1765-1838], Berlin
Until 1981
Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. Dec. 9, 1981.
1981
(Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 9, 1981 (lot 36), sold to Galerie Grünwald)
1981-1983
(Galerie Grünwald, Munich, and David Carritt, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1983-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Provenance Footnotes
1 After Hackert's death in 1807, a catalogue of the works of art of his estate was compiled: Catalogue des Tableaux…fait par le défunt Paysagiste Philippe Hackert.
2 Behrendt was married to the artist’s sister Wilhelmina. The painting may have passed down through Behrendt’s family: a Hackert painting that was sold at Christie’s, Amsterdam on May 7, 2013 was inherited by Behrendt after Hackert’s death, and then passed to Behrendt’s descendants.
3 According to T.S. Bathurst of David Carritt, Ltd., his firm and Galerie Grünwald were co-partners in the sale of the Hackert painting to CMA.
Galerie Grünwald (Munich, Germany). Drei jahrhunderte Deutsche Malerei: 8. Oktober bis 30. November 1982. München: Galerie Grünwald, 1982.
T.S. Bathurst, letter to Sherman Lee, Feb. 10, 1983, in CMA curatorial file.
Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. Dec. 9, 1981.
Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. Dec. 9, 1981.
Lohse, Bruno. Jakob Phillipp Hackert; Leben und Anfange seiner Kunst. Emsdetten, Westf: H. & J. Lechte, 1936.
Galerie Grünwald (Munich, Germany). Drei jahrhunderte Deutsche Malerei: 8. Oktober bis 30. November 1982. München: Galerie Grünwald, 1982.
Lohse, Bruno. Jakob Phillipp Hackert; Leben und Anfange seiner Kunst. Emsdetten, Westf: H. & J. Lechte, 1936.
Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 346-349, Vol. II, no. 121
Munich, Galerie Grünwald. Drei Jahrhunderte Deutsche Malerei (1982), no. 4 (repr.).
Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste. Akademie-Ausstellung (1808), no. 66, Ansicht der Solfatara zu Puzzuoli gegen das Vorgebirge Misenum, Baja, Ischia, Procida, u. s. w.
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