Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches
1600–1653
Medium
Black chalk, brown wash, heightened with yellowish white chalk. Framing line in pen and black ink
Dimensions
sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (28.3 x 21.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009
Accession Number
2009.138
Tags
About the Artist
Anthonie Waterloo|Simon de Vlieger · 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...