Landscape with a Wooded Ravine
1601 to 1650
Medium
black chalk with gray wash heightened with white on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 26.9 x 30.5 cm (10 9/16 x 12 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1972.2.3
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of *Landscape with a Wooded Ravine*, a captivating drawing by Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo created sometime between 1601 and1650. Waterloo, a master of the Dutch Golden Age landscape tradition, in evocative nature scenes that capture the rugged beauty of wooded terrains. This intimate work, measuring just 26.9 x 30.5 cm, invites viewers to linger on its textured details of twisting trees, shadowed ravines, and dappled light filtering through foliage. Executed in black chalk with gray wash heightened with white on laid paper—a favored medium for 17th-century drafts...
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...