Landscape with a Traveler Crossing a Bridge (recto); Sketches of a Gate, a Bridge, and a Town Hall (verso)

1629–90

Not on view

In their delicate detail and golden light, this highly finished pair of luminous landscapes resemble manuscript illuminations. Waterloo, better known for his many landscape drawings in black chalk, here used a complex and unusual mix of media: layers of watercolor and gouache applied over a black chalk underdrawing. Thin strokes of yellow gouache along the surface of the foliage and tree trunks suggest soft light filtering through the woods.

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Title: Landscape with a Traveler Crossing a Bridge (recto); Sketches of a Gate, a Bridge, and a Town Hall (verso)
Artist: Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, Lille 1609–1690 Utrecht)
Date: 1629–90
Medium: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache; framing lines in black ink (recto); black chalk (verso)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 7/16 × 6 1/8 in. (18.9 × 15.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024
Object Number: 2024.629.21
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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