Fir Tree
Jacob Philipp Hackert
1801/02
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 55.3 × 43.1 cm (21 13/16 × 17 in.); Plate: 61.1 × 46.5 cm (24 1/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Sheet: 73.2 × 63.1 cm (28 7/8 × 24 7/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
153581
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.