The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
A Track on the Edge of a Wood with a Peasant Carrying Sheep
after 1640
(Dutch, 1609/10–1690)
Image and Sheet: 25.8 x 39.5 cm (10 3/16 x 15 9/16 in.); Mounted: 26.8 x 40.4 cm (10 9/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
This drawing likely depicts the sandy, wooded region of Veluwe in the southern part of the Netherlands.Description
Known exclusively for his drawings and prints, the Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo specialized in tree studies and dense forest scenes such as this drawing. The vista here was probably made when he visited the Veluwe region of the Netherlands, in the southern province of Gelderland along the Rhine, in the 1640s. The landscape there was known for its woodlands, heathland, panoramic views, and sand drift, producing vistas drastically different than those of the flat, northwestern Netherlandish provinces. Waterloo's technique of using wet charcoal over dry chalk produced the effect of shimmering light and movement across the complex group of trees that are the feature of the drawing. Waterloo made and sold his drawings as finished works of art.- Dowager Lady Riversby inheritance to Louisa, daughter of Sir Peter Riversby descent to the late A.P. StoryDecember 8, 1976(Christie's, London, United Kingdom)November 2, 2004(Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Netherlands)with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, AmsterdamMr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OHMarch 2, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.144