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Pieter Molijn London 1595 - 1661 Haarlem
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description
- Pieter Molijn
- hunters resting in a wooded landscape
- signed and dated in black chalk, upper right: PMolyn./1654.
- black chalk and gray wash, within black chalk framing lines
Provenance
Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (L.2231), his sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 13 May 1914, lot 249;
Carlos Gaa (L.538a), his (?) number, verso: II 66, his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 269;
anonymous sale, Lucerne, H. Gilhofe & H. Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 179;
N.S. Trivas, Sacramento, California, 1941
Literature
H.-U. Beck, Pieter Molyn 1595-1661: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk 1998, cat. no. 246
Catalogue Note
This definitive dune landscape clearly appealed to Molijn; in the same year, he also made another drawing, with slightly different figures, but otherwise largely the same composition (see Beck, op. cit., cat. no. Z 237). As Dr. Beck has described, Molijn did sometimes make autograph duplicates of his own drawings, but those drawings are true duplicates, without the differences in staffage that exist between the present drawing and its variant (see H.-U. Beck, 'Pieter Molijn and his Duplicate Drawings', Master Drawings, XXXV, no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 341-366). The 1650s was Molijn's most prolific and inventive period, when he produced a large number of very complete, atmospheric drawings such as this, representing dune, mountain and river landscapes, winter scenes, peasant markets and other subjects with great liveliness and variety.