The Waterfall of Marmore at Terni
Cleveland Museum of Art

The Waterfall of Marmore at Terni

Philipp Hackert (German, 1737–1807) · 1776–78

pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, with white gouache and graphite
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This work recalls the words written by the artist's close friend, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who declared that an artist should "give his work of art a content and a form through which it appears both natural and beyond Nature."

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