Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing
Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, c. 1610-1690)
c. 1660
- 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
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 15.8 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
