Architectural Capriccio, 1801

Blatt: 332 x 405 mm

Physical Description: Aquarell und Feder über Graphitstift

Inventory Number: 1222

Object Number: 1222 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

A sleeper lies on a large broken stone slab, amidst ancient relics, perhaps dreaming of the sunken times, with the water of the fountain improvised from antique monuments flowing underneath him. This buoyant watercolour, which links the peoples' lives with the past, is about the atmosphere of Rome, which Goethe experienced a few years earlier as an "Arcadian" source of inexhaustible artistic inspiration.