A Rearing Horse before a Landscape

Hercules Seghersca. 1618 - ca. 1622

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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.

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Title: A Rearing Horse before a Landscape
Creator: Segers, Hercules
Date Created: ca. 1618 - ca. 1622
Physical Dimensions: linnen
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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