Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Heuvelig landschap met omheinde velden, rechts een houten balustrade.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-840
  • Dimensionsheight 225 mm x width 489 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, approx. 25 mm at top and bottom and on left and right)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching, additions in drypoint, supplemented with plate tone, printed in blue on thick paper; with pink and blue oil paint; framing line in brown ink; plate tone has been rubbed away entirely in the lightest sections

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields (former title)
    • Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-OB-840

  • Description

    Heuvelig landschap met omheinde velden, rechts een houten balustrade.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Hollstein Dutch 6-2(2)d
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 6-2(2)d
    • Leeflang 6-2(2)d

Creation

  • Creation

    • printmaker: Hercules Segers, Amsterdam
    • after design by Hercules Segers

  • Dating

    c. 1625 - c. 1630

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching, additions in drypoint, supplemented with plate tone, printed in blue on thick paper; with pink and blue oil paint; framing line in brown ink; plate tone has been rubbed away entirely in the lightest sections

  • Dimensions

    height 225 mm x width 489 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, approx. 25 mm at top and bottom and on left and right)

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  • Subject

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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, 1816

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