The Prussian consul, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, had a house on the brow of the Pincian Hill, called Palazzo Zuccari or Casa Bartholdy, and he engaged the quartet of Overbeck, Cornelius, Veit and Schadow to fresco a room 7 m square (now in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin) with episodes from the story of Joseph and his Brethren.
Il console prussiano Jakob Salomon Bartholdy (1779-1825), zio di Felix Mendelssohn, convocò in quegli anni Overbeck, Peter von Cornelius, Philipp Veit e Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow a decorare una grande sala del suo Palazzo Zuccari, sul Pincio, con affreschi ora conservati alla "Alte Nationalgalerie" di Berlino.