Mountain Landscape with a Plateau

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

As happens so often the shadows in drypoint wore down (RP-P-OB-820). They were replaced by triangular and round stipples pricked directly into the plate with a punch (a metal tool).

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-821
  • Dimensionsheight 126 mm x width 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, fragments of a printed framing line along the bottom, right and centre, printed in green on paper prepared with a yellow, lead-based ground; overpainted with a thin, transparent, greyish-green and brown paint, highlighted with dry white paint; framing line in grey ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Mountain Valley with a Plateau
    • Mountain Landscape with a Plateau

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-OB-821

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Haverkamp-Begemann 10-2(2)d
    • Hollstein Dutch 10-2(2)d
    • Leeflang 10-2(2)d

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1625 - c. 1630

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching and drypoint, fragments of a printed framing line along the bottom, right and centre, printed in green on paper prepared with a yellow, lead-based ground; overpainted with a thin, transparent, greyish-green and brown paint, highlighted with dry white paint; framing line in grey ink

  • Dimensions

    height 126 mm x width 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • 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 (L. 2228a), 1816

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