A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

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A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

Creator

Hercules Seghers

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

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Date
c. 1618 - c. 1622
Medium
linen (material)
Institution
Rijksmuseum

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.

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