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Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree

Anthonie Waterloo

17th century

Apse of a Church Seen Through the Snowy Branches of a Tree by Anthonie Waterloo

Medium

Black chalk, gray wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Dimensions

sheet: 12 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (30.9 x 19.3 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, 2005

Accession Number

2005.418.28

Rights

Public Domain

Tags

ChurchesTreesSnow

About the Artist

Anthonie Waterloo · 16091690

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...

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