Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-810
  • Dimensionsheight 140 mm x width 191 mm (trimmed within the printed surface at left; a margin is visible at top, bottom and right, which has been partially painted over)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in dark blue on cotton prepared with a yellowish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in alternating sections of darker and lighter brown, light and darker greyish brown, green and darker bluish-green, and greyish blue, highlighted with dry, greyish-white paint

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Distant View with Branch of a Pine Tree (former title)
    • Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches
  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-OB-810

  • Description

    Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Hollstein Dutch 27-1(3)c
    • Leeflang 27-1(3)c
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 27-1(3)c

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Hercules Segers, Amsterdam (possibly)
    • after design by Hercules Segers
  • Dating

    c. 1622 - c. 1625

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching, printed in dark blue on cotton prepared with a yellowish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in alternating sections of darker and lighter brown, light and darker greyish brown, green and darker bluish-green, and greyish blue, highlighted with dry, greyish-white paint

  • Dimensions

    height 140 mm x width 191 mm (trimmed within the printed surface at left; a margin is visible at top, bottom and right, which has been partially painted over)


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Acquisition and rights

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  • Provenance

    …; collection Pieter Cornelis, Baron van Leyden (1717-1788), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} his daughter, Françoise Johanna Gael-van Leyden (1745-1813), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} from whom, en bloc, fl. 100,000, to Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1778-1846), King of Holland, Amsterdam, for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (L. 240), The Hague, 1807; transferred to the museum, 1816


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