Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Title(s)

Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-840

Catalogue reference

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

Description

Heuvelig landschap met omheinde velden, rechts een houten balustrade.

Artist

• print maker: Hercules Segers
• after own design by: Hercules Segers

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Physical features

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

Material

• paper
• oil paint (paint)

Technique

etching / drypoint / brush

Measurements

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

What

• low hill country
• farm or solitary house in landscape
• balustrade

Credit line

• Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 169, cat.nr. HB 6 II d
• The glory of the Golden Age : Dutch art in the 17th century : drawings and prints, cat.nr. 41
• Dawn of the Golden Age : northern Netherlandish art 1580-1620 [ : 1 1993a], Ger C.M. Luijten, , , , Marijn Schapelhouman, p. 675-676, cat.nr. 347
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 67, cat.nr. 6 IId