Of Waterfalls

Paul Bril
Italianate Landscape with Waterfall
ca. 1600
drawing, with added watercolor
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Cornelis van Poelenburgh
Falls at Tivoli
ca. 1622
oil on copper
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Landscape with Waterfall
ca. 1678
oil on copper
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Charles-François de Lacroix
Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli
1764
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Louis-Gabriel Moreau
Waterfall
1788
gouache on paper, mounted on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Filippo Giuntotardi
Waterfall at Tivoli
1803
watercolor
Hamburger Kunsthalle

John Constable
Landscape with Waterfall
ca. 1806
drawing
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Johann Christoph Erhard
Waterfall in a Forest
ca. 1815-20
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Carl Philipp Fohr
Waterfalls at Tivoli
1817
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Waterfall at Terni
1826
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Karl Blechen
Waterfall at Tivoli
ca. 1832
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Andreas Achenbach
Trollhättan Falls
1835
oil on panel
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

August Kopisch
Cascata delle Marmore near Terni
1839
oil on canvas
Bildgalerie von Sanssouci, Potsdam

Alexandre Calame
Waterfall
ca. 1850
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

Adolphe Braun
Giessbach Waterfall
ca. 1860
carbon print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Henri Rousseau
The Waterfall
1910
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

from Bee on Agastache

It is our calling to be lost in detail:
the peduncle with its cunning bracts, ramified

for the parsing of winged grammarians;

we thrive in the trickery of constructions,

in the manner of address, entry,

the faint trace of civet that was left:

the flower
matches our obsessions exactly.

We have little time for aesthetics:

our schema will not permit it.  

– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)