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Lot Essay
After training with his uncle Johann Gottlieb Hackert and working with Blaise Nicolas le Sueur at the Academy in Berlin in 1753-62, Hackert made a trip to Sweden and France. Together with his brother Johann Gottlieb Hackert he travelled on to Rome in 1768. From here he made journeys to Albano, Frascati, Grotta Ferrata and stayed at the Villa Madama and Tivoli in 1769. Hackert later worked in Naples and Florence, and died in San Piero di Careggio in 1807.
The present lot is a study of part of the Colosseum, seen from the opposite angle as that in Hackert's signed drawing of comparable format, seen from the Via di San Gregorio, in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jacob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807, Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Berlin, 1994, I, fig. 563, II, no. 1202. The Cologne drawing is a study for the artist's picture dated 1775 in the Kunsthalle, Kiel, Nordhoff, op.cit, I, colour illustration 8, II, no. 86. Hackert executed other views of the Colosseum between 1772 and 1779, Nordhoff, op.cit., I, figs. 307, 316 and 320, II, nos. 657, 666, 673 and 758. The latter drawing was with B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, Master Drawings, 1968, no. 22.
The present lot is a study of part of the Colosseum, seen from the opposite angle as that in Hackert's signed drawing of comparable format, seen from the Via di San Gregorio, in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jacob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807, Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Berlin, 1994, I, fig. 563, II, no. 1202. The Cologne drawing is a study for the artist's picture dated 1775 in the Kunsthalle, Kiel, Nordhoff, op.cit, I, colour illustration 8, II, no. 86. Hackert executed other views of the Colosseum between 1772 and 1779, Nordhoff, op.cit., I, figs. 307, 316 and 320, II, nos. 657, 666, 673 and 758. The latter drawing was with B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, Master Drawings, 1968, no. 22.