The Bridge over the Waterfall
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.9 x 21 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 15 x 21 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg
Accession Number
2011.139.26
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art, where *The Bridge over the Waterfall (1648) invites you into a serene 17th-century landscape. This delicate etching on laid paper, measuring about 15 x 21 cm, was created by masterful Bohemian printmaker Wenceslaus Hol after an original composition by Flemish Baroque artist Jacques d'Artois.lar, renowned for his reproductive prints, captures d'Artois' idyllic scene of a stone bridge arching gracefully over cascading water, framed by lush foliage and distant hills—evoking the harmonious naturalism of Flemish landscape traditions. Etching, Hollar's prefer...