Gnarled Trees near the Water
Also titled Knoestige bomen aan het water
Roelant Savery (Kortrijk, 1576–1639)
1605 - 1639
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 124 mm x width 145 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This small print featuring trees with a bridge and hunters in the background is the only etching that can be firmly attributed to Savery. The artist used his own drawing as a model for it. The drawing is squared for transfer – a technique used to copy a composition to a larger scale – indicating that he originally had other plans for it. He ultimately decided to use it for an etching of roughly the same size.
