The Enclosed Valley

Also titled Dal omringd door bergen

Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Medium

linen (material)

Classification

print

Dimensions

height 108 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the plate mark and within the printed surface on right and bottom)

Museum

Rijksmuseum

Credit line

Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Rights

Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Rijksmuseum

About this work

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.

• Prints
• Landscapes
• 1600s