Lot 2140 D α

Jacob Philipp Hackert - Landscape near Sessa Aurunca

Auction 1231 - overview Cologne
18.11.2023, 11:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
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Jacob Philipp Hackert

Landscape near Sessa Aurunca

Pencil and pen in brown. 56.8 x 69.7 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: a Sessa 1794 / Filippo Hackert f.

This drawing was made during the years the artist spent at the court of Ferdinand IV in Naples. It shows a waterfall fringed by dense poplars near the small village of Sessa Aurunca, which lies north of Naples on the slopes of the extinct volcano Monte Santa Croce. The Via Appia, which the artist frequently travelled on his journeys from Rome to Naples, passes by here. Hackert visited Sessa Auruca for the first time in 1792 and returned two years later in the monarch's entourage for a military exercise, which was captured by his court painter in a large painting of 1794 that can now be found in Caserta Castle.

Certificate

Dr. Claudia Nordhoff, February 2016

Provenance

Estate of J. Ph. Hackert. - His brother-in-law Friedrich Christian Behrend. - Karoline Luise of Saxony Weimar Eisenach (1786-1816). - Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814-1858). - Henri Robert Marie Louis Philippe D'Orleans (1908-1999). - Drouot Richelieu, 30.10.2000, estate auction of Prince Henri d'Orleans, no. 24 - Italian private collection.