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Enclosed Valley

c. 1623–30

Hercules Seghers

(Dutch, 1589/90–c. 1638)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
etching on cloth, hand colored with watercolor
Measurements
Platemark: 10.7 x 19 cm (4 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1951.349
Catalogue raisonné
Haverkamp-Begemann 13, state I/IV, b
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Though largely unknown today, Hercules Segers was one of Rembrandt's favorite artists: he owned eight paintings and one printing plate by Seghers.

Description

To make his dreamy and mysterious landscapes, Hercules Seghers combined a number of etching and coloring techniques in order to make prints that met his expressive ends, and which he considered printed paintings. He created 54 etchings, but instead of producing standardized editions printed in black ink on white paper, he made each impression a unique and individualized work of art. He often printed in colored inks on paper prepared with a colored ground, or on cloth (as here), and then painted the printed impression by hand. Cleveland’s etching is one of only ten known impressions of the first state of this print.
A horizontally oriented print on cloth with each corner cut off creates an octagonal shape. The print shows an intricately detailed landscape of a valley with foliage under a vast sky. In the distance, within the valley, there are houses.

Enclosed Valley

c. 1623–30

Hercules Seghers

(Dutch, 1589/90–c. 1638)
Netherlands

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