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Hercules Segers - The Lamentation - Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain photo of art print, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Hercules Segers - Frieze with Ships in a Roadstead

Rechter deel van een grotere prent met aantal schepen op zee.

Hercules Segers - A Skull - Public domain dedication image

The meticulousness with which the old, battered skull is depicted with a muddle of scratches suggests that Segers was here working ‘from life.’ The skull that served as the model is different to the one in the ... More

Hercules Segers - Roman Ruins, a City in the Distance

Segers etched two plates for this print. One was a tone plate with fine crosshatching, which he printed in a greyish blue. The other had the depiction of the ruins and the city, which he printed in black over the tone.

Hercules Segers - The Entrance Gate of the Ruins of Brederode Castle

Segers depicted Brederode Castle’s east gate meticulously and close-up. He accentuated various architectural elements with light and dark grey paint and the highlights with yellowish white oil paint.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with an Oak Tree and a Distant View

Public domain scan of Dutch 17th-century print, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

A fierce rearing horse towers above a tiny strip of landscape. Segers based this depiction of an animal – the only one he made! – on a print after a design by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta.

Hercules Segers - Small Wooded Landscape with a Road and a House

Een pad door een bos, aan het einde ervan een huis.

Hercules Segers - Ruins of Brederode Castle

Brederode Castle, northwest of Haarlem, was founded in the 13th century. It suffered serious damage in the Eighty Years’ War. No other Dutch ruins were depicted as often by artists in the 17th century as this c... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with an Oak Tree and a Distant View

Public domain photograph of textile design, fabric pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Small Version

The loosely woven linen has absorbed the priming layer. The ink did not properly adhere to this ground, whereby the impression is incomplete.

Hercules Segers - Farm Building Surrounded by Trees

This oil sketch probably came from Segers’ studio estate. The composition may have served as preparation for the adjacent etching (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, A 49377) and therefore was not a final product, ... More

Hercules Segers - Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Small Version

Kleine versie van de ruïne van de abdij van Rijnsburg. Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of 18th-century et... More

Hercules Segers - Still Life with Books

While Segers’ stack of books looks unassuming enough, it is entirely original, and may even be the earliest still life in European graphic art. While still lifes frequently feature in 17th-century paintings, th... More

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Public domain scan of Dutch print from Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background

Besides black (RP-P-H-OB-801), Segers also printed this vivid etching in a subtle light grey – this impression – and green (RP-P-H-OB-802).

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

Using another impression of the adjacent etching (RP-P-1910-2012), Segers made a counterproof: while the ink was still wet he printed it on another sheet of paper prepared with a bluish grey ground. The counter... More

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River

Segers first applied a network of intersecting lines. He covered the areas that had to remain white with so-called ‘stopping-out varnish’. Segers simply left the coarse crosshatching and the foul bitten spots i... More

Hercules Segers - Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Hercules Segers - Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Hercules Segers - View through the Window of Segers’ House toward Noor...

Through the window can be seen the new church (Noorderkerk), construction of which was completed in 1623, and houses on Noordermarkt. The landscape with many trees in the background is imaginary.

Hercules Segers - Castle with Tall Towers

Kasteel met twee hoge torens en een kleinere toren. Public domain scan of 16th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Mountain Landscape with a Crest, First Version

Contre-épreuve van de eerste versie van de ets met een landschap met puntige rots en gevorkte boom.

Hercules Segers - Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

For this impression the plate was reworked, but then in the usual etching technique. By means of scratchy line patterns, Segers lent the rocks their characteristic structure.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance

It was recently determined that this etching is printed on paper from the Far East. Insofar as is known Segers, thus, was the first artist in Europe to use this kind of paper, more than twenty years before Remb... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance

Over an impression of the first plate in black (RP-P-H-OB-799), Segers used a second plate to print the pale yellow highlights. This may be the earliest example of what is called printing in register. The blue ... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with Steep Cliffs

Public domain photograph of 17th-century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background

Pad langs bosrand. In de verte een stad met twee kerktorens, dit zou Amersfoort kunnen zijn.

Hercules Segers - Mountain Landscape with a Crest, First Version

Eerste versie van landschap met puntige rots en gevorkte boom. Public domain photograph of a 17th-century landscape painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Mountain Landscape with a Crest, Second Version

This etching is a variant of the adjacent ones (RP-P-H-OB-817, RP-P-H-OB-815). Segers used this plate only for impressions in light ink on a dark ground. The lighter passages, namely, are printed. The dark line... More

Hercules Segers - A Road Bordered by Trees, a Cityin the Background

Pad langs bossige rand. In de verte een stad met twee kerktorens, dit zou Amersfoort kunnen zijn.

Hercules Segers - Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Segers here again used a plate he had already printed. He did not re-ink the plate, but used oil instead. Normally, this kind of impression served to clean the plate. The oil turned brown later.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Large Version

Segers worked up the adjacent oil sketch (RP-T-H-00-250) in two etchings, of which this is the first and largest. A few trees were added on the left. Some areas in the etching turned out somewhat coarse.

Hercules Segers - Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

The colouration of this counterproof on cotton probably remained unfinished. At the bottom the print is priced at 3 stivers (1 stiver was a small Dutch coin equal to one twentieth of a guilder) in 17th-century ... More

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River

This is an impression of the same plate as the adjacent etching (RP-P-H-OB-833). The landscape gained depth and structure through the interplay of the printed lines and the colouring with the brush. In the proc... More

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with a Winding River

For this print Segers once again used the lift-ground technique, in which the representation is drawn directly on the etching plate with a solution of sugar and ink. As a result the etching resembles a pen dra... More

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship

For this landscape Segers used a piece of a larger etching plate with a depiction of a ship. The upsidedown top of a mast can be discerned at the upper right.

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with Low Clouds

Some clouds drift before the rocks. It is interesting to see how Segers achieved this effect: he reserved some of the clouds in the rock formations, and gave the ones in the sky a light contour.

Hercules Segers - View of Amersfoort

Characteristic for this print is the tremendous sense of space, in which the city is virtually subsumed in the natural surroundings. Interestingly Segers took the trouble to transfer the city profile to the etc... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version

The peculiar spots in the sky are caused by false biting, which occurs when the plate is not properly covered with etching ground or stopping-out varnish. The sun-like round spot encircled by a ring of light lo... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hercules Segers - The Enclosed Valley

When this etching was still wet, Segers covered it with a piece of cloth. He pulled both through the press to make a so-called counterproof. This counterproof on cloth was not preserved. The ‘blind print’, that... More

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, Second Version

This etching is a variant of the print, two impressions of which are on view next to it (RP-P-1951-528, RP-P-H-OB-805). In contrast to the first version, this second one displays no traces of an earlier etching... More

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar. Public domain scan of Dutch 17th-century print, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version

In the first version of the Landscape with a Waterfall Segers added shadows with hatching (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin 963-13, RP-P-H-OB-825, RP-P-OB-826). Here, in the second version, the dark passages are the... More

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version

Fragments of a ship can be discerned in the sky above the landscape. Segers cut the large plate with the ship into pieces and used them for three etchings of mountain landscapes.

Hercules Segers - The Two Trees (An Alder and an Ash)

The young alder and ash shown here are among the most convincing and original renderings of trees in 17th-century art. Both species abound in the river landscapes in which Segers travelled around.

Hercules Segers - Mountain Landscape with a Plateau

As happens so often the shadows in drypoint wore down (RP-P-OB-820). They were replaced by triangular and round stipples pricked directly into the plate with a punch (a metal tool).

Mountain Valley, at the Right a Man Carrying a Stick

The areas of shadow in drypoint in the first state (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, 245679) were worn and replaced with stipples. They were pricked directly in the plate with a punch (a steel tool).

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version

Segers applied greenish brown paint with swift strokes of the brush. Presumably this was the first layer of colour, and he would subsequently paint the sky and other passages, like he did in the adjacent impres... More

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, First Version

Eerste versie van het landschap met een waterval. Geëtst op een fragment van een oorspronkelijk veel grotere etsplaat, waarop een schip was voorgesteld.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, First Version

Eerste versie van het landschap met een waterval. Geëtst op een fragment van een oorspronkelijk veel grotere etsplaat, waarop een schip was voorgesteld.

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Public domain scan of Dutch print from Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version

This is a counterproof on cotton of the adjacent print (RP-P-1951-528). The rocky landscape is overpainted in oil paint, thereby rendering the fragments of the ship invisible.

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields

Segers printed this nocturnal scene with a generous amount of plate tone: he did not wipe all of the ink from the etching plate. Next he overpainted the impression with blue watercolour. The valley seems bathed... More

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields

Heuvelig landschap met omheinde velden, rechts een houten balustrade. Public domain photograph of a 17th-century landscape painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - Ship in Rough Water

This little ship in a vast swirling sea is printed in light ink on a dark ground. As a result the atmosphere of this etching differs entirely from the rest of this maritime ensemble.

Hercules Segers - The Enclosed Valley

The earliest impressions of this etching are on linen. By painting the foreground with brown paint and the background with grey or blue, Segers subsequently added a subtle colour perspective.

Hercules Segers - The Enclosed Valley

Clearly visible in this impression are the areas of shadow Segers added by scratching directly in the etching plate with a sharp needle. This ‘drypoint technique’ had never before been used to create tone.

Hercules Segers - Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hercules Segers - The Enclosed Valley

Public domain image of painting, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - The Mossy Tree

This is not just simply a tree, but rather some kind of calligraphy. The mossy branches are linked together solely with thin lines and seem to float before the delicately coloured background.

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar. Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of 18th-ce... More

Hercules Segers - Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Public domain scan of Dutch 17th-century print, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

The roads, buildings, and rocks in this etching are a claret colour. The same elements in the painting are coloured brown, pink, and red. This makes it plausible that Segers wielded the brush himself in both works.

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

Picryl description: Public domain image of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

From the direction of the spots it is clear that the sheet was upside down when moisture partly dissolved the paint in the sky and made it run.

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

Public domain image of painting, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

Public domain image of painting, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hercules Segers - River Valley, painting by Rembrandt van Rijn

Before Segers’ signature was discovered on this painting, it was attributed to the Flemish artist Joos de Momper. The imaginary landscape, seen from a high vantage point, and the colours – brown for the foregro... More

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

The clouds in pen and wash were added later, though not by Segers.

Hercules Segers - View of Wageningen

The print shows Wageningen in reverse and so it was probably made after the painting (National Galleries of Scotland, NG2800). At the left Segers added mountains that do not in fact exist.

Hercules Segers - The Large Tree

For this etching Segers covered virtually the entire plate with a dense pattern of intersecting lines. He blocked out features he wished to reserve. Printed on white paper this yielded subtle gradations of blac... More

Hercules Segers - The Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii

Depicted is an ancient tomb on the Via Appia Antica at Albano. The sky is covered with light and dark blue oil paint. This colouration may not have been finished, and the ruins and vegetation were also still me... More

Hercules Segers - The Lamentation of Christ

Segers meticulously followed a woodcut by Hans Baldung Grien from around 1515 for this poignant depiction. He built up the composition using different tones, rather than lines, as in the woodcut.

Hercules Segers - The Lamentation of Christ

Segers overpainted an impression in blue of the same etching on view here (RP-P-OB-797) with body colour and oil paint. He overpainted no other print with so many different colours.

Hercules Segers - Tobias and the Angel

On the basis of the watermark in the paper used for this etching, it could be dated to around 1630–1633. It must have been one of Segers’ last prints, and given the representation and its sensitive execution al... More