Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing
Anthonie Waterloo
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
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 15.8 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- charcoal
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
prints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
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.
