Wooded Landscape (after 1648): Art, History and Details

Wooded Landscape (after 1648) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609/10–1690).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: Wooded Landscape
• Date: after 1648
• Creator attribution: Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609/10–1690)
• Culture: Netherlands
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Charcoal applied wet, brush and black and brown and white washes; black ink framing line on antique brown laid paper
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: DR - Dutch
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2019.16

A detail from the museum

Studies of dense forests and individual trees were a specialty of Dutch artists in the 1600s.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd. Old Master Drawings, July 2008. London: Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd, 2008.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.