Apollo and Daphne
Anthonie Waterloo
1640-90
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 29 × 24.3 cm (11 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Plate: 29.1 × 24.5 cm (11 1/2 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
148701
About the Artist
Anthonie Waterloo · 1609–1690
Anthonie Waterloo (1609–1690) was a prominent Dutch Golden Age landscape artist, born on May 6 in Lille, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. Little is known of his early life beyond his mother, Magdalena Vaillant, who joined Amsterdam's Walloon Church in 1621, with Waterloo following in 1630; no records exist of formal training, and he was likely self-taught. Registered as a painter in Amsterdam...