The Enclosed Valley

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

The earliest impressions of this etching are on linen. By painting the foreground with brown paint and the background with grey or blue, Segers subsequently added a subtle colour perspective.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1961-869
  • Dimensionsheight 108 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the plate mark and within the printed surface on right and bottom)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent light brown, a more opaque dark grey and transparent light grey

Identification

  • Title(s)

    The Enclosed Valley

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1961-869

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Hollstein Dutch 13-1(4)a
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 13-1(4)a
    • Leeflang 13-1(4)a

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, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent light brown, a more opaque dark grey and transparent light grey

  • Dimensions

    height 108 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the plate mark and within the printed surface on right and bottom)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

  • Acquisition

    bequest 1961

  • 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. 780, DM 7,500, to Isaäc de Bruijn (1872-1953) and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruijn-van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Muri; by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. 2228a), 1961

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