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De grote boom
Creator
Hercules SeghersDutch painter and engraver (c.1589-c.1638) · 1589–1638
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- c. 1628 - c. 1629
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
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 black and grey tones and the play of light in the tree’s leafy canopy, and elsewhere.
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