Man and Woman Crossing the Stream
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 × 28.1 cm (8 9/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Plate: 22.5 × 28.8 cm (8 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Sheet: 27.4 × 24.6 cm (10 13/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109092
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...