Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011229A Track on the Edge of a Wood with a Peasant Carrying Sheep
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on verso of mount: "[illegible/illegible]"; Written in pencil on verso of mount: ""//"; Written in pencil on verso of mount: "258 x 397"; Written in pencil on verso of mount: "Reg. Christie's/sale 8.XII.76 lot 55/[illegible]=935 [illegible/illegible] Anthonie Waterloo/ex coll Dowager Lady Riser (?)/Louisa Ri [illegible] 1812 Joseph [illegible] of [illegible]
Provenance
Dowager Lady Rivers by inheritance to Louisa, daughter of Sir Peter Rivers by descent to the late A.P. Story December 8, 1976: (Christie's, London, United Kingdom) November 2, 2004: (Sotheby's, Amsterdam, Netherlands) with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, Amsterdam Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH March 2, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609/10–1690)
- Date
- after 1640
- Medium
- Charcoal and wetted charcoal and gray wash on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.144
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