Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River

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Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River

Creator

Hercules Seghers

Dutch painter and engraver (c.1589-c.1638) · 1589–1638

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Date
c. 1622 - c. 1625
Medium
paper
Institution
Rijksmuseum

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 in the sky because they would be covered when he overpainted the impression.

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