Tower with Man Walking

Art Institute of Chicago

Tower with Man Walking

Jacob Philipp Hackert

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

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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Object type
AAT300033973

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