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Huldigung an Jacquin ("Jacquins Denkmal")

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Homage to Jacquin ("Jacquin's Monument")
Date1821-1822

Künstler*in Johann Knapp (1778 Wien – 1833 Wien)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions
218 × 164 cm
SignatureSign. und dat. unten rechts am Steinsockel: JOHANN KNAPP / FECIT / MDCCCXXII / SCHOENBRUNN; sowie am Marmorsockel: VOCAT NATURA / ARTEM / UTRAQUE / TE IMMORTALEM. / OPST MEYER.; ebenso rechts seitlich: LINN AEI.
Inventory number3651
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The first impression is one of chaos, an overabundance of plants and flowers. Yet this is deceptive for, in fact, the painting depicts the diversity of the plant kingdom that the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–78) had divided into twenty-four classes, its first systematic classification. Linnaeus oversees everything from his urn—including the clever cockatoo and the clumsy monkey. Above the bust of the Viennese botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817) on the plinth, two inconspicuous plants are intertwined. They are Linnaea borealis and Jacquinia mucronata, named after Linnaeus and Jacquin. Johann Knapp painted this work as a tribute to the latter.

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Ärarischer Besitz
1939 Übernahme aus Hofburg, Wien

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