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    "localId": "329355",
    "label": "Wooded Landscape",
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    "dtoType": "drawing"
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    "id": "329355",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Wooded Landscape",
    "description": "Known exclusively for his drawings and prints, the Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo specialized in tree studies and dense forest scenes such as this drawing. Here he created a vista through groupings of tall trees, producing the effect of shimmering light and movement with his unique technique of using wet charcoal over dry chalk. He added a subtle white wash throughout the center of the composition to create the hint of the sun’s glow beyond the trees. Such a work would have been sold as a finished work of art.",
    "date": "after 1648",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.16",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79876041"
    ],
    "creators": [
        13111
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.16/2019.16_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.16/2019.16_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.16/2019.16_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Support: 34.9 x 53 cm (13 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.); Matted: 42.9 x 60.5 x 0.6 cm (16 7/8 x 23 13/16 x 1/4 in.); Image: 28.8 x 46.3 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Netherlands"
    ],
    "accession": "2019.16"
}

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    "tec": "Charcoal applied wet, brush and black and brown and white washes; black ink framing line on antique brown laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Wooded Landscape, after 1648. Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch, 1609/10–1690). Charcoal applied wet, brush and black and brown and white washes; black ink framing line on antique brown laid paper; support: 34.9 x 53 cm (13 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.); matted: 42.9 x 60.5 x 0.6 cm (16 7/8 x 23 13/16 x 1/4 in.); image: 28.8 x 46.3 cm (11 5/16 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.16",
    "collection": "DR - Dutch",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "On verso, pen or graphite inscription (erased?) A. Pynnier",
            "inscription_remark": "(inscription read via IR photography)"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Studies of dense forests and individual trees were a specialty of Dutch artists in the 1600s.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd. Old Master Drawings, July 2008. London: Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd, 2008.",
            "page_number": "Cat. 22, p. 54-55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.16",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:56:43.071000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.16/2019.16_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 329355,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - Dutch",
    "med": "Charcoal applied wet, brush and black and brown and white washes; black ink framing line on antique brown laid paper",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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