A Track on the Edge of a Wood with a Peasant Carrying Sheep

About this work

A dirt path winds through tall trees, their trunks dark against the pale sky. A man in a long coat carries a sheep over his shoulders, while another figure walks ahead. Waterloo drew this scene in the Veluwe region, where forests and sand drifts made the land look nothing like the flat fields of Holland. He worked mostly in ink and chalk, not paint, so the lines feel loose and alive—like a quick sketch, not a finished picture. If you like quiet woods, look up the subject *netherlands*.