View of a Dutch Town (Rhenan)
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.9 × 20.7 cm (4 11/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Plate: 12.1 × 20.9 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 12.8 × 21.6 cm (5 1/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41749
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...