# A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

- By: Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1618 - c. 1622
- Medium: linen (material)
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 104 mm x width 76 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, with loss of part of the image on the right only)
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-H-OB-865--91391c562a7bc8986b79c4645ccc3a4c)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/wCTLY/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.