HACKERT, Jacob Philipp
(b. 1737, Prenzlau, d. 1807, San Piero di Careggio)

View of Lake Nemi

1803
Oil on canvas, 65 x 88 cm
Private collection

This signed and dated painting provides a view of the Lake Nemi from the north, with the town of Nemi and the town of Genzano beyond, with a donkey and travellers on a path in the foreground.

Similar views of the Lake Nemi were painted by other 18th-century painters such as Claude-Joseph Vernet, John Robert Cozens, Joseph Wright, Solomon Delane, and Nicolas-Didier Boguet.