Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version

Hercules Segers, 1625 - 1630

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-822
  • Dimensionsheight 156 mm x width 209 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left and right)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone, coloured with paint in transparent brown, green, dark grey, transparent red and opaque bluish-white; large printing fold on left, irregular printed framing lines at bottom and top

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version
    • Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right: First Version
  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-OB-822

  • Description

    Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Hollstein Dutch 19-a
    • Leeflang 19-a
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 19-a

Creation

  • Creation

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

    1625 - 1630

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone, coloured with paint in transparent brown, green, dark grey, transparent red and opaque bluish-white; large printing fold on left, irregular printed framing lines at bottom and top

  • Dimensions

    height 156 mm x width 209 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left and right)


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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 (L. 2233), 1816


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