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Property from a New York Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Klaes Molenaer
River landscape with village walls and figures conversing in the foreground
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October 21, 04:50 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Property from a New York Private Collection, Sold Without Reserve
Klaes Molenaer
Haarlem 1626/9 – 1676
River landscape with village walls and figures conversing in the foreground
signed lower center: k molenaer
oil on panel
panel: 18½ by 25⅛ in.; 47 by 63.8 cm.
framed: 24⅞ by 31⅛ in.; 63.2 by 79.1 cm.
With H. Shickman Gallery, New York (according to a label on the reverse);
Thereafter acquired by the present collector.
Best known for his scenes of canals outside city walls and winter villages, Klaes Molenaer was a Haarlem landscape and genre painter who belonged to the wider circle of Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29-1682). Molenaer's charming landscapes are often enlivened with sketch-like figures of washerwomen, anglers, and villagers and, as in the present painting, conjure a picturesque vision of provincial life and leisure in the Netherlands.