The Two Trees (An Alder and an Ash)
Also titled De twee bomen (een els en een es)
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1625 - c. 1630
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 152 mm x width 173 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top; especially on left where strip several centimetres wide seems to be missing)
- 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
The young alder and ash shown here are among the most convincing and original renderings of trees in 17th-century art. Both species abound in the river landscapes in which Segers travelled around.
