Rocky Landscape with Low Clouds

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Some clouds drift before the rocks. It is interesting to see how Segers achieved this effect: he reserved some of the clouds in the rock formations, and gave the ones in the sky a light contour.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1933-600
  • Dimensionsheight 143 mm x width 201 mm (trimmed within the printed surface; clouds cut at top and on right suggest that the impression of this print was once taller and wider)
  • Physical characteristicscounterproof of an etching with drypoint, printed in black on paper prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, printed framing line

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Rocky Landscape with Low Clouds
    • Rocky Valley with Low Clouds

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1933-600

  • Description

    Landschap met rotsen, opgebouwd uit platte en onscherpe lijnen, mogelijk een contre-épreuve.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Hollstein Dutch 11
    • Leeflang 11
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 11

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

    counterproof of an etching with drypoint, printed in black on paper prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, printed framing line

  • Dimensions

    height 143 mm x width 201 mm (trimmed within the printed surface; clouds cut at top and on right suggest that the impression of this print was once taller and wider)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1933

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; ? collection Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg (1604-1667), Schloss Wolfegg;{According to L. 2542.} by descent within the Kunstsammlungen der Fürsten zu Waldburg-Wolfegg (L. 2542); their sale et al., Leipzig (C. G. Boerner), 14 November 1933 sqq., no. 781, DM 6,200, to the dealer D. Warmer; from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228a), 1933

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