Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo

17th century

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree by Anthonie Waterloo

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 · 16091690

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...

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