Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009354View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli from Solfatara
About the Artwork
Attracted to its dramatic vistas, volcanoes, exotic peasants, and classical ruins, landscape painters of the 1700s and 1800s flocked to the countryside around Naples. This view looks west toward the Gulf of Pozzuoli from just above the Solfatara, an area of volcanic steam vents. The ancient town of Pozzuoli, where the apostle Paul landed on his way to Rome, lies in the distance. Hackert's attention to detail and rendering of form with extreme lucidity is characteristic of German Romantic painting.
Inscriptions
Inscribed and signed bottom edge to left of center in brown paint: Vue prise sur la Solfatare a Pozzoule, / peint par Philippe Hackert 1803.
Provenance
1803-1807: Artist’s estate, by descent to Johann Christian Behrendt 1807-: Johann Christian Behrendt [1765-1838], Berlin Until 1981: Sotheby's (Firm). Important Old Master Paintings. Dec. 9, 1981. 1981: (Sale, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 9, 1981 (lot 36), sold to Galerie Grünwald) 1981-1983: (Galerie Grünwald, Munich, and David Carritt, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1983-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Philipp Hackert (German, 1737–1807)
- Date
- 1803
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 146 x 190 x 14 cm (57 1/2 x 74 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 119 x 166.5 cm (46 7/8 x 65 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1983.14
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