River Landscape
17th century
Medium
Black and white chalk, brush and gray wash. Traces of framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions
sheet: 11 13/16 x 20 11/16 in. (30 x 52.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Helen Hay Whitney Fund by Exchange, 1995
Accession Number
1995.18
Tags
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...