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Philipp Hackert

The Waterfall of Marmore at Terni

1776–78
pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, with white gouache and graphite

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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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