Planks Attached to Four Trees
1601 to 1650
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.11.210
Art Historical Context
In the serene world of 17th-century Dutch printmaking, Anthonie Waterloo's *Planks Attached to Four Trees (ca. 1601–1650) captures the artist's fascination with nature's raw forms. A master etcher from Haarlem, contributed to the Dutch Golden Age celebration of landscapes, where everyday scenes of trees and woodlands evoked a sense of quiet introspection. This etching, housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection (Department CG-E), showcases his skill in rendering the rugged beauty of bark and branch. Etching, Waterloo's preferred medium, involved coating a copper plate with a...
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...