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A Rearing Horse before a Landscape, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622
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.

On loan from the City of Amsterdam
line etching, possibly a counterproof, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, fragments of printed framing line on left, top and bottom, small etched circles at top left and center, possibly remnants from rejected image, h c.104mm × w c.76mm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/R
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Christ’s Descent into Limbo, anonymous, c. 1440
These three groups, from a large Crucifixion altar, reveal how colourful most Gothic sculpture originally was. During a recent restoration, small slivers of glass were found in the old pigment; this would have added to the glittering impression of the whole. Research of the oak shows that the sculptures were carved after c. 1420, the felling date of the tree.

oak with polychromy, gilding, leather, glass and metal, h 48.5cm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/B
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