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Wooded Landscape
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About this work
Known exclusively for his drawings and prints, the Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo specialized in tree studies and dense forest scenes such as this drawing. Here he created a vista through groupings of tall trees, producing the effect of shimmering light and movement with his unique technique of using wet charcoal over dry chalk. He added a subtle white wash throughout the center of the composition to create the hint of the sun’s glow beyond the trees. Such a work would have been sold as a finished work of art.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWooded Landscape, after 1648. Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609/10–1690). Charcoal applied wet, brush and black and brown and white washes; black ink framing line on antique brown laid paper; support: 34.9 x 53 cm (13 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.); matted: 42.9 x 60.5 x 0.6 cm (16 7/8 x 23 13/16 x 1/4 in.); image: 28.8 x 46.3 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.16
