Jacob Philipp Hackert - Study of a Goat - image-1

Lot 2500 Dα

Jacob Philipp Hackert - Study of a Goat

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 14:00 - 19th Century Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 12.400 € (incl. premium)

Jacob Philipp Hackert

Study of a Goat

Oil on canvas (relined). 27 x 29.5 cm.

Claudia Nordhoff dates the present work to Hackert's Florentine period. During this time, the artist is known to have painted “animals and other things entirely from nature”. The present work, depicting a single goat, was presumably also painted out of doors. The artist probably painted it as a private study rather than a commercial piece. He has eschewed the depiction of a landscape background to concentrate on the precise rendering of the animal's physiognomy and pelt. However, he still suggests atmosphere through the depiction of a long shadow cast by the evening sun and the goat's windswept fur, indicating a strong breeze from the right.

Certificate

Claudia Nordhoff, Rome, 23.10.2012.

Provenance

Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk, Munich.

Literature

Rolf Schenk and Catherine Franke-Schenk (ed.): Kunstsalon Franke-Schenk 100 Jahre Jubiläumsausstellung., Munich 2013, p. 92-7, no. 12.