Getting started with the collection:
A Skull
Hercules Segers, c. 1615 - c. 1630
The meticulousness with which the old, battered skull is depicted with a muddle of scratches suggests that Segers was here working ‘from life.’ The skull that served as the model is different to the one in the adjacent painting (Welch Family Private Collection, United States).
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-H-OB-866
- Dimensionsheight 74 mm x width 106 mm
- Physical characteristicslijnets, mogelijk een tegendruk, gedrukt in zwart op katoen geprepareerd met een loodhoudende, grijze grondering, fragmenten van gedrukte kaderlijnen aan boven en onderzijde