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Rocky Landscape with Low Clouds
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Rocky Landscape with Low Clouds

Hercules Segers · c. 1625 - c. 1630 · etching; counterproof; drypoint; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Some clouds drift before the rocks. It is interesting to see how Segers achieved this effect: he reserved some of the clouds in the rock formations, and gave the ones in the sky a light contour.

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Credit lineRocky Landscape with Low Clouds. c. 1625 - c. 1630. Hercules Segers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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