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Hendrick Goltzius

Landscape with a Waterfall, from Four Small Landscapes

1597/1600, printed 1605/20
Chiaroscuro woodcut in black, ochre, and green with additions of white gouache on blue ivory laid paper
11.2 × 14.8 cm (4.4 × 5.8 in)

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Reminiscent of the Venetian landscape woodcuts made after paintings and drawings by Titian and Domenico Campagnola, this landscape shows a fisherman battling the force of a waterfall. In the first impression, Hendrik Goltzius heightened the print by hand with white gouache. The second impression is the final work and was created from multiple woodblocks.

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