View to Lago de Pientine and Monte Carlo
View to Lago de Pientine and Monte Carlo
Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737-1807 Florenz)
oil/canvas
88,5 x 65 cm
sign. lower right: “Lago de Pientine … di Monte Carlo” “Filippo Hackert 1805.
In 1804 Hackert purchased a countryhouse in Carreggi near Florence and created various paintings in his homeland.
The present painting therefore is not just a landscape, but also a pictorial document of Hackert 1800 moving to Florence.
“Lago di Pientine” was a lake in the hills of Tuscany between the cities of Lucca and Pisa, nestled by Monte Pisano and Monte Carlo which disappeared due to the great drainage in 1859, after an order of Grand Duke Leopold II. to regulate the extensive wetland.
Hackert's paintings feature certain details that reveal his interest in the social life and work of the local population.It is indeed Hackert's skill in depicting plants and trees that gives the painting an artistic significance that goes beyond that of a mere redoute and justifies the view that Hackert should be considered Europe's first landscape painter.
Prov.: Private collection Germany, in family possession since ca. 1960.
The present painting therefore is not just a landscape, but also a pictorial document of Hackert 1800 moving to Florence.
“Lago di Pientine” was a lake in the hills of Tuscany between the cities of Lucca and Pisa, nestled by Monte Pisano and Monte Carlo which disappeared due to the great drainage in 1859, after an order of Grand Duke Leopold II. to regulate the extensive wetland.
Hackert's paintings feature certain details that reveal his interest in the social life and work of the local population.It is indeed Hackert's skill in depicting plants and trees that gives the painting an artistic significance that goes beyond that of a mere redoute and justifies the view that Hackert should be considered Europe's first landscape painter.
Prov.: Private collection Germany, in family possession since ca. 1960.
