The Mossy Tree, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

The Mossy Tree, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

lift-ground etching, printed in green (azurite and precipitated yellow lake) on paper prepared with a light pink, lead-based ground, coloured from top downwards with semi-transparent, light blue paint, coloured from the bottom upwards with a semi-transparent, grayish-blue paint, h c.168mm × w c.98mm Catalogue entry

This is not just simply a tree, but rather some kind of calligraphy. The mossy branches are linked together solely with thin lines and seem to float before the delicately coloured background.

Color code: #8D8770 Color code: #ACA690 Color code: #6C674E Color code: #F6F6EE Color code: #514D3B Color code: #C6BDA7

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Catalogue entry

Identification

Title(s)

The Mossy Tree

Object type

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-847

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 32
Leeflang 32
Haverkamp-Begemann 32

Description

Boom met mos hangend van de takken.

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Material and Technique

Physical features

Material

Technique

lift-ground etching / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 168 mm × width c. 98 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left)

Explanatory note

unicum

Subject

What

trees: larch

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; collection Michiel Hinloopen (1619-1708), Amsterdam;{According to L. 11.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam (L. 11), 1708; from which on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), since 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 213, cat.nr. HB 32
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 85, cat.nr. 32
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 24, cat.nr. 56

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