A Skull, Hercules Segers, c. 1615 - c. 1630
line etching, possibly a counterproof, printed in black on cotton prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, fragments of printed framing line top and bottom, h c.74mm × w c.106mm Catalogue entry
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).
