The Group of Four Trees
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.8 × 17.5 cm (5 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Plate: 13.8 × 17.6 cm (5 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 14.2 × 18 cm (5 5/8 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109088
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...