Farm Building Surrounded by Trees

Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

This oil sketch probably came from Segers’ studio estate. The composition may have served as preparation for the adjacent etching (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, A 49377) and therefore was not a final product, but rather working material.

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-H-00-251
  • Dimensionsheight 176 mm x width 291 mm
  • Physical characteristicsoil, over a sketch in black chalk, on paper prepared with an opaque, dark grey-blue ground

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Farm Building Surrounded by Trees
    • Farm Building Surrounded by Trees with a Figure near a Fence

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-H-00-251

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Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Hercules Segers, Amsterdam (possibly)

  • Dating

    c. 1618 - c. 1622

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil, over a sketch in black chalk, on paper prepared with an opaque, dark grey-blue ground

  • Dimensions

    height 176 mm x width 291 mm

Explanatory note

  • Voorstudie voor prent.

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the City of Amsterdam

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Michiel Hinloopen (1619-1708), Amsterdam;{According to L. 11.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam (L. 11), 1708; on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), since 1885

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Hercules Segers

Farm Building Surrounded by Trees with a Figure near a Fence [P 19]

? Amsterdam, c. 1618 - c. 1622

Inscriptions

  • stamped on verso: at lower right, with the mark of the City of Amsterdam (L. 11)

Condition

Small tear at upper left, with old restoration; brown and grey spots over entire sheet; the verso of the paper is light brown due from the oil-based binding agent in the ground having permeated the support.

Provenance

…; collection Michiel Hinloopen (1619-1708), Amsterdam;1According to L. 11. by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam (L. 11), 1708; on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), since 1885

Object number: RP-T-H-00-251

Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam

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Biography

Artist

Literature

L.C. Collins, Hercules Seghers, Chicago 1953, p. 25, no. 19; E. Haverkamp Begemann (ed.), Hercules Seghers, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Museum Boymans) 1954, no. 32; J.Q. van Regteren Altena, 'Hercules Seghers en de topografie', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 3 (1955), no. 1, p. 3; K.G. Boon, 'Een notitie op een Seghers-prent uit de verzameling Hinloopen', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 8 (1960), no. 1, p. 5; J. Verbeek, Hercules Seghers en zijn voorlopers, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1967, no. T. 1, pl. 63; E. Haverkamp-Begemann, Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings, with a Supplement on Johannes Ruischer by E. Trautscholdt, Amsterdam and The Hague 1973, under no. 32 (fig. 6); J. Rowlands, Hercules Segers, Amsterdam 1979, p. 36, under no. 67; M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Artists Born between 1580 and 1600, 2 vols., coll. cat. Amsterdam 1998, no. 290; H. Leeflang and P. Roelofs (eds.), Hercules Segers: Painter, Etcher, 2 vols., exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum)/New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 2016-17, I, no. P 19

Citation

H. Leeflang, 2016, 'Hercules Segers, Farm Building Surrounded by Trees with a Figure near a Fence [P 19], Amsterdam, c. 1618 - c. 1622', in J. Turner (ed.), Works by Hercules Segers in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200144331

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Footnotes

  • 1According to L. 11.