Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing
Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, c. 1610-1690)
c. 1660
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
At first glance, this drawing seems unremarkable in its choice of subject. A man crosses a bridge on a winter day, with humble structures and trees behind him. But the artist described the scene with such a broad range of colors, further elaborated with white chalk, that he imparted a sense of magic to the routines of daily life.
- Medium
- Black chalk, over translucent and opaque watercolors, with touches of white chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink ledger (verso) on off-white laid paper, incised for transfer
- Original size
- 19.7 × 15.8 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- William Pitcairn Knowles (1820–1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden; sold, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, June 25, 1895, lot 732.
- Private collection; sold, Sotheby’s (Kunstveilingen Maak van Waay B.V.), Amsterdam, June 10, 1975, lot 114, to British Rail Pension Fund; sold, Sotheby's, London, Jan. 8, 1991, lot 121, to David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec., 2007.
Exhibitions
- Austin, Tex., Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, Jan. 19– Mar. 7, 1982.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Oct. 20, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, 36–37, 209.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, 261, 262, 319, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
