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Mountain Landscape, Peasants in a Clearing near a Waterfall (recto); Landscape Sketch (verso)
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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- early 1650s
- Medium
- Point of the brush and black ink, gray and brown wash with touches of blue and red wash in the figures (recto); black chalk (verso)
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Anthonie Waterloo covered nearly every inch of paper with ink and wash, leaving little of the sheet bare. He used dark, dense strokes applied with the tip of his brush to highlight the foreground foliage; in the middle distance he gradually lightened the lines; Waterloo described the distant mountain with delicate washes of gray. In Waterloo's vision of nature, humans are diminutive spectators: a pair of peasants in blue and red are dwarfed by the majestic pines behind them. The immense trees even overshadow the waterfall, which cascades through the center of the scene. Despite the detailed and finished character of the drawing, it does not represent a real location. Waterloo carried on the tradition of imaginary alpine views popularized by another Utrecht artist, Roelandt Savery.
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