According to Nina Siegal’s article in The New York Times: New research leads the Rijksmuseum to conclude that six new works should be part of the canon of the little-known Dutch artist Hercules Segers. The Rijksmuseum is presenting the six works among 18 paintings, and 110 impressions of 44 prints in a large-scale retrospective, “Hercules Segers,” from Oct. 7 to Jan. 8. It will then move to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it will open on Feb. 13 as “The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers.” By presenting these “new” works to a list of about a dozen accepted Segers paintings in the world, the Dutch national museum has vastly expanded the oeuvre of one of the Golden Age’s most experimental and mysterious artists, who was admired by and influenced Rembrandt, among others.
This is a great example of scholarly research and science coming together. Among other things, the museum used: infrared reflectography, X-ray fluorescence, ultraviolet photography and dendrochronological research, or tree-ring dating, which determines the date of the wood panels used for the paintings.
If you happen to be in New York after February 13, you will have a chance to see the works for yourself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit.
Source: Rijksmuseum Attributes Six Works to a Dutch Old Master
Hercules Segers “River Landscape With Figures”