Gerard Seghers: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Seghers is best known for his monumental genre paintings and great religious and figurative works. He has completed many altars for churches in the South of Holland. Most of his pictures were performed in a horizontal format.
Stylistically and thematically, Seghers has initially been strongly influenced by Caravaggio and in particular by the work of Bartolomeo Manfredi, the follower of Caravaggio. Caravaggism, both in history and in great genre paintings, continues to mark the work of Segher...