(Prenzlau 1737–1807 San Piero di Careggio) A lake landscape near Stockholm, signed and dated “J. P. Hackert. del. 1764 Stockholm.”, pen and black ink, grey wash, framing lines in pen and black ink, on laid paper, with watermark “C & I Honig” in aquatint letters and large crowned coat of arms with lilies, 32,5 x 49 cm, on the original cardboard support, mounted, unframed, (Sch)

Provenance:
Paul Graupe Gallery, Berlin, Goethe und sein Kreis. Collection Leon Nathanson-Dresden, Auction sale 106, 19th-29th April 1933, Lot 545, Abb. plate 22; J. A. Stargardt, Berlin, Bilder und Handschriften der Goethezeit, Auction sale, Cat. 343, 20th-21st October 1933, lot 98,Ill. Plate II; Private collection, Germany.

Literature:
The present drawing is published in: C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert, Berlin 1994, Vol. II, p. 220, No 501.

The present drawing is an early work by Jakob Philipp Hackert from the time of his journey to Sweden. The composition is borrowed from Netherlandish models such as from landscapes by Salomon Ruysdael, which show also diagonal compositions where a little boat in the foreground serves as an optical barrier in contrast to the streaming water. „Like the most drawings from the Swedish journey, this sheet also shows a combination of spontanous observation of nature and of what he knew from previous compositional designs. Hackert thus included his landscapes in a proven tradition which he had studied for many years.“ (Nordhoff 1994, p. 221, No. 501).