A Traveller Resting
17th century
Medium
Etching; fourth state of four
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in. (23.3 x 30 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.100.36
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the serene etching *A Traveller Resting*,17th-century Dutch artistthonie Waterloo captures a moment of quiet respite amid a dense forest. A weary traveler pauses on a path, accompanied by loyal dogs, evoking the timeless harmony between humanity and nature. Created during the Dutch Golden Age, when landscape prints flourished, this work reflects Waterloo's mastery of wooded scenes, influenced by masters like Rembrandt and Hercules Seghers. As a fourth state of four in the etching medium—produced by incising lines into a copper plate with acid— this print represents the final, most refined ...
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...