The Trimmed Groves

Anthonie Waterloo

17th century

The Trimmed Groves by Anthonie Waterloo

Medium

Etching, first state of six, proof with corrections in pen and ink and gray wash on the humock lower right, in the foliage for example

Dimensions

sheet: 8 13/16 x 11 5/16 in. (22.4 x 28.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005

Accession Number

2005.377.34

Tags

Trees

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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