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Hercules Seghers

The Enclosed Valley, c. 1622-1625

Not on View

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

1943.3.7981

Artists / Makers

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

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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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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).