The Aqueducts at Caserta
1789
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1789
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Aqueducts at Caserta is a 1789 by Carl Ludwig Hackert, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a grand stone aqueduct stretching across hilly land under a cloudy sky. It’s done in ink and watercolor, with precise lines and soft shading. Hackert made this outdoors in Italy. Most artists of his time worked indoors from sketches. Few finished drawings like this survive from him. If you like his work, look up his brother, Jakob Philipp Hackert.
Such highly finished drawings by Hackert, younger brother of Jakob Philipp Hackert (who painted Waterfall of Marmore at Terni ), are extremely rare. The Hackert brothers were among the first Romantic artists to adopt the practice of drawing and painting en plein air in Rome. Italians were amazed when they saw the artists roaming the countryside with large portfolios, executing finished outline drawings entirely from nature. This drawing accurately represents an aqueduct built in the middle of the 18th century in southern Italy. The degree of finish, meticulous detail of the vegetation and…
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Carl Ludwig Hackert (1751–1798) was a German artist.
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