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Group of People on a Terrace

Jacob Philipp HackertLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c17d7639dbe

Date: 1797
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite and traces of white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Culture: Germany
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 199545

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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.