24. Antoni Waterloo
(1609-1690)
Farmhouse Beside the Water

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Waterloo, Farmhouse

Farmhouse Beside the Water

Etching, 235 x 292 mm., Bartsch 116, TIB 116 iii/iii. Fine later impression on laid paper with large margins. Waterloo was both the first and the most prolific Dutch etcher of landscape in the seventeenth century and an early example of an artist who, because of little luck in selling his paintings, concentrated on drawings and prints. In so doing, he also got into the business of dealing and publishing, which explains why his name is sometimes found on prints by other artists. He is known to have traveled in Germany and may well have gone further a-field, so his images, the locations of which are almost never noted, are not always of the low countries. His fascination was with trees, which he drew superbly, and with the simple pastoral scenes that met his eye on his wanderings, and though a specific site is sometimes identifiable, topographical identification was the farthest thing from his mind.