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Lot 77
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Anthonie Waterloo Lille 1609 - 1690 Utrecht

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Description

  • Anthonie Waterloo
  • recto: landscape with the ruins of a large castleverso: study of the edge of a copse
  • inscribed, lower right: Waterlo 
    black chalk, partly oiled, and brown wash (recto and verso)

Catalogue Note

The drawings of Waterloo and Simon de Vlieger can often be very hard to separate.  Although the handling of the trees and buildings on the recto of the present sheet seems perhaps closer to what we expect of de Vlieger, the characteristic, bold use of chalk in the trees on the verso makes an attribution to Waterloo the only one that can plausibly be sustained.