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Jacob Philipp Hackert

Tower with Man Walking

1797
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
55.5 × 44.3 cm (21.9 × 17.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

The German Romantic artist Jacob Philipp Hackert was fascinated by Italy, and he became court painter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. He specialized in landscape painting, particularly scenes of Classical ruins.

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