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

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Segers applied greenish brown paint with swift strokes of the brush. Presumably this was the first layer of colour, and he would subsequently paint the sky and other passages, like he did in the adjacent impression (RP-P-OB-822).

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-824
  • Dimensionsheight 161 mm x width 217 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left only)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone in sky at top, coloured with transparent greenish-brown paint, fragments of printed framing line

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-824

  • Description

    Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

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

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, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone in sky at top, coloured with transparent greenish-brown paint, fragments of printed framing line

  • Dimensions

    height 161 mm x width 217 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left only)


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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, 1816


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