An extensive landscape with a tavern among trees to the right

Details

Anthonie Waterloo (Lille circa 1610-1690 Utrecht)
An extensive landscape with a tavern among trees to the right
black chalk, watercolour heightened with white, pen and brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark hand
6 1/8 x 7¼ in. (155 x 184 mm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 6 July 1976, lot 128.
The British Rail Pension Fund; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1992, lot 3.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 148.

Exhibited

Austin, Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, 1982, no. 21.
Norwich, Castle Museum, The Northern Eye, February-March 1987.

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Lot Essay

One of a small group of landscapes drawn by Waterloo in a distinctive and individual technique combining black chalk and watercolour with touches of bodycolour as highlights, perhaps with the addition of oiled charcoal, to create delicate atmospheric effects. Little is known of Waterloo's life, but the suggestion that he was self-taught would correspond with this unusual handling of media.

Other drawings from the group are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (D. Scrase, Dutch Master Drawings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exhib. cat., Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and elsewhere, 1996, no. 32), the Musée Condé, Chantilly (D. Mandrella, Arcadie du Nord, exhib. cat., Chantilly, Musée Condé, 2001, no. 80), formerly in the collection of Pierre de Charmant (Christie's, Paris, 21 March 2002, lot 109) and a drawing which, like the present sheet formerly belonged to the British Rail Pension Fund (Sotheby's, New York, 8 January 1991, lot 121).

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