LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (height) by 34.84 in. (88.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated lower right: Ph: Hackert pinx / Romae 1778 (or 1779)

Exhibited:

Munich, Galerie Julius Böhler, Gemälde alter Meister, Plastiken, Kunstgewerbe, June-September 1966, no. 14; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Heroismus und Idylle. Formen der Landschaft um 1800 bei Jacob Philipp Hackert, Josef Anton Koch und Johann Christian Reinhart, 1984, no. 26.

Provenance:

Presumably on the market in London or in an English private collection in the second quarter of the 19th Century, when relined by Francis Leedham in London; Possibly with Kaufmann, London, according to a chalk inscription on the stretcher; With Julius Böhler, Munich, 1966, from whom acquired in that year by the late father of the present owners.