View of the Palace of Caserta
Carl Ludwig Hackert (1740 - 1796)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1788 (signed and dated)
Materials
Gouache on paper
Measurements
440 x 640 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608970
Summary
Gouache on paper, View of the Palace of Caserta by Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), signed: Vue de Caserta prise du gardin Anglois peint d'après Nature par Carl Hackert 1788. A romantic landscape with a palace and mountains. Two figures in the centre foreground, large tree to right. Carl was a younger brother of Jacob Philipp Hackert and followed him to Rome in 1772.
Provenance
Believed to be 3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842). Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
A La Cave
Makers and roles
Carl Ludwig Hackert (1740 - 1796), artist