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The Mossy Tree
Also titled De bemoste boom
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1625 - c. 1630
- Medium
- paper, paint (coating)
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 168 mm x width 98 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- 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
About this work
This is not just simply a tree, but rather some kind of calligraphy. The mossy branches are linked together solely with thin lines and seem to float before the delicately coloured background.
