Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg: Small Version
c. 1618-1622
Artist, Dutch, c. 1590 - c. 1638

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching printed in black on linen (prepared with ground) and hand-colored with blue watercolor
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 x 17.5 cm (3 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1944.5.132
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Catalogue Raisonné
Leeflang 2016, no. HB 47, State i/ii (impression d)
Artwork history & notes
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
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
Prints, 1400-1800, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956-1957, no. 157.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956.
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).
Inscriptions
none
Markings
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 [?]]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65021102