The Enclosed Valley

c. 1622-1625

Hercules Seghers

Artist, Dutch, c. 1590 - c. 1638

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint in brown on laid paper mounted on later laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 10.7 × 18.7 cm (4 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    mount: 11.7 × 19.4 cm (4 5/8 × 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.7981

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leeflang 2016, no. HB 13, State ii/iv (impression r)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rudolf von Gutmann [1880-1966], Vienna (?); (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Vienna);(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 32.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 66-67, repro.

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 41.

1949

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1949.

1952

  • 100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952.

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.

1957

  • The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957, unnumbered catalogue.

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. 26.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 61.

1975

  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1975, not in cat.

1976

  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1976, no. 16, repro.

1980

  • Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1980-1981, no. 33, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 39, 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.59-60, 33.

1982

  • Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 122, no. 39.

2016

  • Leeflang, Huigen, and Pieter Roelofs, et al. Hercules Seghers: Painter, Etcher. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 2016, no. HB 13, state ii/iv (impression r).

Inscriptions

none

Markings

recto: none; verso: Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b) and National Gallery of Art

Wikidata ID

Q65021100


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