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"title": "Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts",
"description": "Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (February 14-May 18, 2003).",
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"description": "Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, Dresden",
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"did_you_know": "Though largely unknown today, Hercules Segers was one of Rembrandt's favorite artists: he owned eight paintings and one printing plate by Seghers.",
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"description": "To make his dreamy and mysterious landscapes, Hercules Seghers combined a number of etching and coloring techniques in order to make prints that met his expressive ends, and which he considered printed paintings. He created 54 etchings, but instead of producing standardized editions printed in black ink on white paper, he made each impression a unique and individualized work of art. He often printed in colored inks on paper prepared with a colored ground, or on cloth (as here), and then painted the printed impression by hand. Cleveland\u2019s etching is one of only ten known impressions of the first state of this print.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201c\u2018Der Talkessel\u2019 of Hercules Seghers.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 1 (January 1952): 14\u201317.",
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"citation": "Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. \u201cGillis van Coninxloo: A Landscape with Venus and Adonis.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 9 (November 1963): 252\u2013258.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 256, fig. 7",
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