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The landscape is very probably imaginary, no doubt formed or embellished by elements drawn from Hackert's extensive travels that year, which included trips to Rome, northern Italy, Switzerland, Naples and the south. The distant coastline, for example, carries distinct echoes of Hackert's views of the coast at Paestum near Naples. Another similar view, painted in the same year as the present work, is now in the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest.
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