Water in the Mountains (c. 1790–1800): Art, History and Details

Water in the Mountains (c. 1790–1800) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Christoph Nathe (German, 1753–1806).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Nathe studied in Leipzig with Adam Friedrich Oeser, who taught many important figures of the period including the writer and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Oeser inspired Winckelmann’s philosophy "edle Einfalt, stille Grösse" (noble simplicity, quiet magnificence). Although Nathe went in his own direction, this meticulous landscape of sunlight striking rocks beside a brook reveals the influence of his teacher.

Object facts

• Title: Water in the Mountains
• Date: c. 1790–1800
• Creator attribution: Christoph Nathe (German, 1753–1806)
• Culture: Germany, 18th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1995.215

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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