The Sentry Box on the Wall
1601 to 1650
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.11.220
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of, where *The Sentry Box on the Wall* Anthonie Waterloo invites you into the serene world of 17th-century Dutch landscapes. Created between 1601 and 1650, this etching captures a quiet architectural vignette—a sentry box perched atop a weathered wall—evoking the pastoral charm and subtle grandeur of the Dutch Golden Age. Waterloo, a masterful Dutch printmaker active during this vibrant era, specialized in intricate outdoor scenes blending nature and human-made structures, often drawing from the romantic ruins and everyday fortifications of his time. As an etch...
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...