25. Antoni Waterloo
(1609-1690)

The Little Hunchback

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Waterloo, The Little Hunchback

The Little Hunchback

Etching, 297 x 237 mm., Bartsch 121, TIB 121 iii/iii. Fine later impression on laid paper with large margins; a bit of foxing in the right margin. The small figures, of course, are only an excuse for the landscape and the delineation of foliage which, rather than having any allegorical meaning, as it might in Ruisdael, is sufficient unto itself. Waterloo’s tree drawing had a considerable influence, not only on his contemporaries, but on British landscapists and the Barbizon artists two centuries later.