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A Rearing Horse before a Landscape
Also titled Steigerend paard
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1618 - c. 1622
- Medium
- linen (material)
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 104 mm x width 76 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, with loss of part of the image on the right only)
- 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
A fierce rearing horse towers above a tiny strip of landscape. Segers based this depiction of an animal – the only one he made! – on a print after a design by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta.
