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River Landscape with a Castle in the Distance
Creator
Anthonie WaterlooDutch Artist · 1609–1690
All works by this person →Documents from the 1600s identify Anthonie Waterloo as a painter but very few paintings by him are known. He worked primarily as a draftsman and etcher and specialized in landscape scenes, producing several hundred landscapes ranging from highly detailed and topographically accurate views to atmospheric forest interiors. Waterloo favored a combination of black chalk and gray wash and often worked
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- after 1650
- Medium
- Black chalk and watercolor with oiled charcoal, yellow chalk, and touches of white opaque watercolor, on laid paper
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 5f7f64f2-b483-4b3b-9b12-f70df45d4f5b
The drawing depicts a luminous landscape of a wooded path near a river with a view of a distant castle on the edge of a cliff. Waterloo used an unconventional array of media to create this colorful and striking autonomous work of art. Sketching the preliminary design in black chalk, he built through successive layers of watercolor the variegated green foliage of the trees and the vivid blue sky and clear water. He used charcoal saturated in oil to shape the shadows of tree trunks, which are contrasted with the golden highlights formed from a naturally occurring colored chalk used to capture the flickering light. Executed in his typically painterly manner with golden light, flickering leaves, and blue waters the drawing offers an impressionistic view of an idyllic countryside.
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