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View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara

Philipp HackertLinkedCulture matchlcp-72da1f8f94ea

Date: 1803
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: Germany, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 151257

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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. While in Naples, the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took painting lessons from Philipp Hackert; their meetings were documented in Goethe's travelogue Italienische Reise (Italian Journey).

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance: 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