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View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara

View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara

1803
(German, 1737–1807)
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.)

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
  • 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.
  • {{cite web|title=View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara|url=false|author=Philipp Hackert|year=1803|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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