About the Artwork
River Landscape
17th century
Hercules Seghers
1589-1640
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 15 7/8 × 25 1/8 inches (40.3 × 63.8 cm) Framed: 28 3/4 × 38 1/2 × 3 inches (73 × 97.8 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
38.68
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
private collection (Russia)
1938, (A. C. von Frey, Paris, France)
October 1938, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Art News (November 5, 1938): p. 14.
Art Digest (November 15, 1938): p. 12.
Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 2 (1938): pp. 4-8, (repr.).
Loan Exhibition of Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, February 3-26, 1939, cat. 37 [as Hercules Seghers; intro. by E. P. Richardson, unpaginated].
Masterpieces of Art. Exh. cat., New York World's Fair. New York, 1939, p. 171, cat. 352.
WPA Michigan. Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State. New York, 1941, p. 256.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, pp. 121, 185, no. 729, (repr.) [as Hercules Seghers].
Exhibition of Landscape Painting. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. New York, November 8, 1945-January 1, 1946.
Gnau, A. Diabolus in Musica. Detroit, 1955, p. 56, (repr.).
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school of Hercules Seghers, River Landscape, 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 38.68.
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