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The Tomb of the Horatii and Curiatii
Also titled De tombe van de Horatii en Curiatii
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1628 - c. 1629
- Medium
- paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 126 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- 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
Depicted is an ancient tomb on the Via Appia Antica at Albano. The sky is covered with light and dark blue oil paint. This colouration may not have been finished, and the ruins and vegetation were also still meant to be coloured.
