Two Men in the Hollow
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.8 × 28.9 cm (8 5/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 22.8 × 29.4 cm (9 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 26.6 × 34.4 cm (10 1/2 × 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109095
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...