Wooded Landscape
1630–90
Medium
Black chalk and brush and black ink, gray and grayish black wash, heightened with white. Verso: (by the artist?) in pen and brown ink over black chalk.
Dimensions
11 13/16 x 7 1/16 in. (30 x 18 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.821
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...