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Hercules Seghers

Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg: Small Version, c. 1618-1622

Not on View

Medium

etching printed in black on linen (prepared with ground) and hand-colored with blue watercolor

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 x 17.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leeflang 2016, no. HB 47, State i/ii (impression d)

Accession Number

1944.5.132

Artists / Makers

Hercules Seghers (artist) Dutch, c. 1590 - c. 1638

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Inscription

none

Marks and Labels

recto, upper right, stamped in black ink [too faint to read]: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett (Lugt 1645-1648?) verso, center, stamped in black ink: Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett (Lugt 685; 2483; and 1616); verso, bottom left, stamped in black ink: [unidentified stamp, initials PI [?]]

Provenance

Jacobus Houbraken [1698-1780], Amsterdam; purchased by Karl Heinrich von Heineken [1707-1791], Dresden, for Friedrich Augustus II [1696-1763], Elector of Saxony, between 1746 and 1756; transferred to Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden; acquired by exchange and purchase by Frits Lugt [1884-1970], Maartensdijk, 1923; (Richard Zinser, New York); purchased by Walter Bareiss [1919-2007], New York, 1940; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1944; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, Friedrich
Bareiss, Walter
Houbraken, Jacobus
Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
Lugt, Frits
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: New acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1945.

1948: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, 1948.

1953: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1954: Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1956: Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956.

1956: Prints, 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-1957, no. 157.

1962: Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 27, repro.

1965: Landscape Prints by Rembrandt and other Dutch Artists from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1965.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 40, repro.

Bibliography

1973: Havercamp-Begemann, E. Hercules Seghers: The Complete Etchings. Amsterdam/The Hague, 1973.

1981: Ackley, Clifford S. Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1981:, pp.109-10, 67.

1982: Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 122, no. 40.

2016: Leeflang, Huigen, and Pieter Roelofs, et al. Hercules Seghers: Painter, Etcher. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016, no. HB 47, state i/ii (impression d).