Landscape with Zipphorah and her Son, from Six Landscape Subjects from the Old Testament
Anthonie Waterloo
1650/60
Medium
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.4 × 25.2 cm (11 5/8 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30 × 25.9 cm (11 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
29352
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...