Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing

Prints and Drawings

c. 1660

Anthonie Waterloo
Dutch, c. 1610-1690

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.

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Artist: Anthonie Waterloo
Title: Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1655–1665
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
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower half of sheet, in pen and brown ink: list or itemized receipt in old hand; center, in charcoal: "W6" or "WG"; lower left corner, in graphite: "100._"
Dimensions: 19.7 × 15.8 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
Reference Number: 2007.649
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Austin, Tex., Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, Jan. 19– Mar. 7, 1982, p. 20, cat. 22 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Dreams and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, Oct. 20, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, pp. 19, 36–37, 209, cat. 7 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 259, 261 (ill.), 262, 319, cat. 107, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

William Pitcairn Knowles (1820–1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden [stamp (Lugt 2643) verso, lower left, in purple]; 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.

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