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The Bridge of San Paolo
Jacob Philipp HackertLinkedCulture matchlcp-3c17d7639dbe
- Date
- 1793
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and various brown washes over graphite on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 222539
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Jacob Philipp Hackert would flee Naples in 1799 following the Napoleonic occupation, but in the golden early 1790s, this German Romantic landscape painter was deeply enamored with the contours and history of southern Italy. Hackert’s view of the bridge of San Paolo bears witness to the importance of place in its characteristically specific inscription, deftly nestled into the inviting upward path. He signed and dated the work 1793 and noted that the view shows the remains of the ancient Roman Via Latina, granting a greater immediacy and a historical depth to the scene.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Sold, Bassenge, Berlin Nov. 7, 1967, lot 534, to a private collector; sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 29, 2014, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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