Wooded Landscape with a Bridge
Anthonie Waterloo
1601 to 1650
Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 12.5 x 14.6 cm (4 15/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict
Accession Number
1994.60.66
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...