Lot 225
  • 225

Anthonie Waterloo

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Anthonie Waterloo
  • A row of houses along the fortified walls of a city
  • Point of the brush and gray wash over black chalk;
    the mount bears a cartouche and numbering, printed in brown ink, verso48 and inscription: Antoine Vaterloo 

Provenance

Jean-Baptiste Glomy (L.1119);
Anonymous French Collection, late 18th Century (L.3000)

Condition

Laid down on a Glomy mount. There is a small light brown stain to the upper left corner. Otherwise in very good condition, with the medium strong throughout.
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Catalogue Note

Waterloo worked primarily as a draftsman and etcher, specializing in landscape scenes, which vary from highly detailed and topographically accurate views1 to atmospheric forest interiors.2

The present work, executed in Waterloo's favored combination of black chalk and gray wash, is a particularly atmospheric and charming depiction of a row of houses along the fortified walls of a city, whose ramshackle roofs are becoming overgrown by invading trees and vines.

1. L. & W. Stubbe, Um 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet. Anthonie Waterloo, 1610-1690, Hamburg 1983, pp. 140-141, pl. 49

2. Ibid., pp. 165-167, pl. 58