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Fed by two waterfalls, an olive-green stream with foamy whitewater spills toward us, cascading over rocks and boulders in this vertical painting. Sunlight cuts across the sheer, rust and caramel-brown cliffs that fill the composition beyond the waterfalls, throwing the area closest to us in shadow. The stream is fed by a tall, thin waterfall to our left and a wider, lower waterfall to our right. One dark rock pokes out of the pool at the foot of the waterfalls. Tumbling forward over a broad, horizontal ledge about a third of the way up from the bottom, the stream breaks over massive rocks…
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View of the Waterfalls at Tivoli

painter Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld (French, 1758 - 1846)

1788

Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 50.8 x 38.1 cm (20 x 15 in.) ; framed: 67.3 x 54.6 x 5.1 cm (26 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Fern and George Wachter
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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