A Rearing Horse before a Landscape, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

A Rearing Horse before a Landscape, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

line etching, possibly a counterproof, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, fragments of printed framing line on left, top and bottom, small etched circles at top left and center, possibly remnants from rejected image, h c.104mm × w c.76mm Catalogue entry

A fierce rearing horse towers above a tiny strip of landscape. Segers based this depiction of an animal – the only one he made! – on a print after a design by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta.

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Catalogue entry

Identification

Title(s)

A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

Object type

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-865

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 52
Leeflang 52
Haverkamp-Begemann 52

Description

Steigerend paard op een heuvel, landschap in de verte. Zeer lage horizon.

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1618 - c. 1622

Material and Technique

Physical features

Material

linen (material)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 104 mm × width c. 76 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, with loss of part of the image on the right only)

Explanatory note

unicum

Subject

What

rearing (horse in motion)

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. 236, cat.nr. HB 52
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 93, cat.nr. 52
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 26, cat.nr. 73
Een notitie op een Seghers-prent uit de verzameling Hinloopen, p. 9, afb. 6

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