A Large Tree at Albano
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite; framing lines in brown ink
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1977
Accession Number
1977.418
Tags
Art Historical Context
### A Large Tree at AlbanoStep into the sun-dappled landscapes of 18th-century Italy with Jacob Philipp Hackert's *A Large Tree at Albano (1782). This drawing captures the majestic form of a solitary tree in Albano, a picturesque town near Rome overlooking Lake Albano. Hackert, a German artist who made Italy his home from 1768 onward, was renowned for his precise, depictions of the Roman countryside. His works appealed to Grand Tour travelers and intellectuals like Goethe, who praised his ability to render nature with topographic accuracy and poetic grace. Rendered in pen and brown ink with b...
About the Artist
Jacob Philipp Hackert · 1737–1807
German landscape painter, views in Italy; in the manner of Claude. Landscape painter whose international experience and views in the tradition of Claude Lorrain proved highly influential when he settled in Naples in the late 18th century.