Landscape with a Mill (recto); A Steepled Façade and Farm House (verso)
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, gray wash, with traces of framing line in black chalk (recto); black chalk and wash (verso)
Dimensions
7 7/8 x 24 1/4 in. (20 x 61.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.162.4
Rights
Public Domain
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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...