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Hercules Segers

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Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an even more innovative printmaker.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (9)

Tobias and the Angel

1630 · intaglio printmaking technique on paper

height: 202 cm, width: 276 cm

Rijksmuseum

Lamentation of Christ

1630 · etching on paper

height: 163 cm, width: 157 cm

Rijksmuseum

River valley

1626 · panel, oil paint (paint)

height: 30 cm, width: 53.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

Mountain Valley, at the Right a Man Carrying a Stick

1625 · drypoint on paint (coating), paper

width: 199 cm, height: 143 cm

Rijksmuseum

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

1625 · etching on paper

height: 135 cm, width: 188 cm

Rijksmuseum

Mountain Valley with Tree Stumps and the Remains of a Ship in the Foreground

1623 · etching on paper, varnish, oil paint (paint)

width: 202 cm, height: 138 cm

Rijksmuseum

Rocky Landscape with a Village and a Tall Tower

1623 · etching on paper

width: 192 cm, height: 120 cm

Rijksmuseum

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

1620 · Line etching, drypoint, and metal punch printed in blue-green, on a yellow-green ground, colored with brush; second state of two

sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 7/16 in. (10.5 x 13.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Lamentation

1607 · Etching in brown-black on ivory laid paper

Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 16.3 × 15.6 cm (6 7/16 × 6 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (3)

9 published of 9 catalogued · 9 with image

Rijksmuseum
7 published7 img
The Met
1 published1 img
Art Institute Chicago
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Tobias and the Angel
1630 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Lamentation of Christ
1630 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Rocky Landscape with a Village and a Tall Tower
1623 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Mountain Valley with Tree Stumps and the Remains of a Ship in the Foreground
1623 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
River valley
1626 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Mountain Valley, at the Right a Man Carrying a Stick
1625 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Mountain Valley with a Plateau
1625 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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