Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree
Anthonie Waterloo
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, gray wash, heightened with white, on blue paper
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (30.9 x 19.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.418.28
Tags
ChurchesTreesSnow
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...