Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River c. 1622 - 1625
herculessegers
pencil drawn
amateur sketch
light pencil work
pencil sketch
river
rock
pen-ink sketch
sketchbook drawing
pencil work
mixed medium
sketchbook art
watercolor
"Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River" (c. 1622 - 1625) is a small etching by Hercules Segers, a Dutch artist known for his innovative and dramatic landscape prints. Segers was fascinated by the effects of light and shadow and created unique textures and compositions that defied the conventions of his time. This print, currently housed in the Rijksmuseum, features a rugged, mountainous landscape, the road snaking towards the horizon. It is a prime example of Seger's signature style: dark, intricate, and full of visual drama.
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Segers first applied a network of intersecting lines. He covered the areas that had to remain white with so-called ‘stopping-out varnish’. Segers simply left the coarse crosshatching and the foul bitten spots in the sky because they would be covered when he overpainted the impression.
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