Art Institute of Chicago
Tower with Man Walking
Jacob Philipp HackertLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c17d7639dbe
- Date
- 1797
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 198870
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The German Romantic artist Jacob Philipp Hackert was fascinated by Italy, and he became court painter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. He specialized in landscape painting, particularly scenes of Classical ruins.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Sold by Jill Newhouse, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Jan. 2008; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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